Socrates's Gestion of Onomotopea

Socratess gestion, then, is that all real or natural words are onomotopeic. If we take the idea seriously, we'll see that when words were originally bestowed upon things, the people who bestowed them were expressing certain ideas about the natures of things and crafting words to match. These ancestors of ours, it would seem, were heracliteans. They used certain letters to suggest that things are constantly changing. For instance, socrates says the greek letter ro is supposed to signify rapid change, because the tongue vibrates when pronouncing it. The letter lamda is supposed to represent gliding or flowing. Now socrates gives examples of how this autom