Frege also includes in his tonal class other types of examples that appear entirely unrelated to those just considered.¹ With a sentence fragment like 'slithers and hisses in the grasses", where the element of onomatopoeia is heard, one must ask whether there is anything to its meaning over and above whatever descriptive content it contains. Again, I answer this in the negative. Doubtless, prominent repetition of the 's' sound imparts in some sense a certain "coloring" to the utterance, and may be exploited for special effect or purpose. Nevertheless, this is more a matter of happy accident than of a standard, rule-governed connection to anything that either the words or the way they are put together represent. Failure on the part of an audience to appreciate this effect does not reflect a defect in linguistic comprehension. They may not grasp why the speaker has uttered all those 's' sounds; it might or it might not put them in mind of a snake, supposing this to be the speaker's intention. However, their failure to apprehend her intention does not betray a failure to understand the content of her words — i.e., tofully grasp what she says.