Reopen request: "Sounds which seem to express a particular quality whatever words they appear"

Question

This is a request to reopen the question, "Sounds which seem to express a particular quality whatever words they appear" I believe that it is a perfectly legitimate question and not a not real one, as simchona, MετάEd, Mr. Shiny and New 安宇, cornbread ninja and tchrist stated.

Indeed, if any, the question is an "expert" one, I would say.

In fact, the answer is (PHONESTHEME):

The term phonestheme (or phonaestheme in British English) was coined in 1930 by British linguist J. R. Firth (from the Greek φωνή phone, "sound", and αἴσθημα aisthema, "perception" from αίσθάνομαι aisthanomai, "I perceive") to label the systematic pairing of form and meaning in a language.

A phonestheme is different from a morpheme because it does not meet the normal criterion of compositionality.

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So, I would like to post my own answer.

Thank you.

Answer 1

There is a good single word request in the original post.

But the post is badly organized. It seems to be about a linguistic effect, based both on the title (“Sounds which seem to express a particular quality whatever words they appear”) and the first paragraph. This is misleading: the post takes the reader down a garden path. Suddenly the actual question – a single word request – comes near the end of the body, almost as an afterthought.

A poorly worded question leads to poor responses. The reaction in comments shows that poor organization created great confusion. It generated much wasted discussion of the linguistic effect itself and whether the question was on topic.

The original close reason was "ambiguous, vague, incomplete, overly broad, or rhetorical and cannot be reasonably answered in its current form." That is still an apt description for the question as posed. For the sake of all future visitors who will also be confused, the question should either be immediately reorganized or else reclosed until it can be rewritten.

Also, Carlo, I point out with all kindness that you became impolite when the question was not received as you intended. If you had addressed yourself to improving the question instead of attacking people who commented on it you might have had an answer long before now.

Answer 2

How does that answer address the stated problem,that if this quality exists it exists in all languages, not just English, and so the question is quintessentially off-topic?

(Incidentally, I would never have thought from reading the question that you were looking for this answer. That's not a reason to close, but it may be a reason to downvote.)