remember the cask of amontillado meme? that was a good meme we should bring that back

syntax-forest

I have some cask of amontillado memes you might like if you wanna come check them out in my basement.

oh boy would i!

youdontstayfornothing

cupcakelogic

thornicating

youdontstayfornothing

trans-girl-waiting

If you’ve ever said “she’s too tall” you’re an absolute coward lol

trans-girl-waiting

I’m so about how popular this post is, tall girls are so good

thornicating

The fuckin cereal post is going around again isn’t it

#end me

thornicating

malekeleke

no more discourse everybody shut the fuck up and eat some bread

-Jesus at the last supper

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?

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.