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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?

dokteur

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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.

dlrk-gently

Reblog if u just hummed all of these out loud as you read them

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probablynothumanish:
“remusthedukeofdeodorant:
“ what-username-where:
“ skelet00n-fl0wer:
“ loverboybutch:
“ loverboybutch:
“this got 1k notes in 4 hours are y'all ok
”
this got 5k notes in 6 hours are y'all ok
”
No but like :/
Anxiety cryptid...
loverboybutch

this got 1k notes in 4 hours are y'all ok

loverboybutch

this got 5k notes in 6 hours are y'all ok

skelet00n-fl0wer

No but like :/

Anxiety cryptid babey!!

what-username-where

NO NONE OF US ARE OK BUT WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT IT EXCEPT SCREAM

remusthedukeofdeodorant

Fuck you op because this hurts

probablynothumanish

Anxiety genius and ADHD/Autism Cryptid

isitthescreaming20syet

cryptid depression