towerofsleep:

jahsonic:

the linguistic sign is not arbitrary!

I’ve been researching the Bouba/kiki effect more in depth.

One of my most surprising finds is that the linguistic sign is not (always) arbitrary, contrary to what de Saussure said about 100 years ago[1] and which is still held as a fact.

The image shown comes from the English translation of Cours... by de Saussure.

Huh!

See also C.S. Pierce