It strikes me that sad is considerably more onomatopoetic than happy.
Or so it struck me while biking back from the train on this fine, cool, about to storm spring evening.
Upon reflection, perhaps this is as much a matter of circumstance as anything else. Perhaps the eager puppy connotations of happy may at another time & context seem in fact just right, while the slumped shoulders of sad would then too flimsy. But not for now, at least, and not for me.
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Happy sounds super a lot like what it is to me! When I say happy I feel like it forces my face into something like an almost laugh and a smile...but sad sounds like a grunty barely spoken word with mouth closed.... but then again maybe I think too much about how words make my face feel!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI can quite easily imagine "happy" that way when I imagine *you* saying it!
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