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thenordroom

am-i-evil

greenjellies

frenchoffence

malamente1992

eroscestlavie

remember the sims 2 ds game which was nothing like any recognizable sims game and involved your character owning a hotel in the middle of a desert and occasionally giving fruit to a mummy so your power didn’t get shut off

theanti90smovement

cametobrazil

paprika

“talk dirty to me”

flaming-fruitcake-deactivated20

Why douche when you just pop a tide pod up your ass and become a human washing machine.

scottandhiskind

Your posts are literally gonna kill some young, naive twink

bonbonlanguage

You know what I think is really cool about language (English in this case)? It’s the way you can express “I don’t know” without opening your mouth. All you have to do is hum a low note, a high note, then another lower note. The same goes for yes and no. Does anyone know what this is called?

rk8con

suspendnodisbelief

These are called vocables, a form of non-lexical utterance - that is, wordlike sounds that aren’t strictly words, have flexible meaning depending on context, and reflect the speakers emotional reaction to the context rather than stating something specific. They also include uh-oh! (that’s not good!), uh-huh and mm-hmm (yes), uhn-uhn (no), huh? (what?), huh… (oh, I see…), hmmn… (I wonder… / maybe…), awww! (that’s cute!), aww… (darn it…), um? (excuse me; that doesn’t seem right?), ugh and guh (expressions of alarm, disgust, or sympathy toward somebody else’s displeasure or distress), etc.

Every natural human language has at least a few vocables in it, and filler words like “um” and “erm” are also part of this overall class of utterances. Technically “vocable” itself refers to a wider category of utterances, but these types of sounds are the ones most frequently being referred to, when the word is used.