What was that mouth noise?
January 23, 2009 4:53 PM Subscribe
This post was deleted for the following reason: More context and a working link and this could be an interesting post. -- cortex
Google HTML version. It appears to be an academic paper, but there's no mention of microliters, atoms, etc. so I can't be sure.
posted by Science! at 5:03 PM on January 23, 2009
posted by Science! at 5:03 PM on January 23, 2009
Can you give us a bit more background on this subject. I'm already titillated, but that doesn't sound like the right arousal response (for many reasons).
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 5:10 PM on January 23, 2009
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 5:10 PM on January 23, 2009
Once, in my younger days, my friends and I were playing Truth or Dare. A girl was dared to kiss me in a way I'd never been kissed before. So she bit me.
A couple of years later, I was hanging out with some friends after a punk show. A completely different girl asked me how the show was. I said it was good, but the pit was weak; I'd hardly gotten roughed up at all. So she bit me.
posted by lekvar at 5:16 PM on January 23, 2009 [2 favorites]
A couple of years later, I was hanging out with some friends after a punk show. A completely different girl asked me how the show was. I said it was good, but the pit was weak; I'd hardly gotten roughed up at all. So she bit me.
posted by lekvar at 5:16 PM on January 23, 2009 [2 favorites]
It looks to be a linguistics paper about a sound "produced by a velaric ingressive airstream involving closure at two points in the mouth: against the velum (using the back of the tongue),and farther forward" common in West Indian dialects of English. It would be nice to have some context, or a summary. The discussion of the African origins of the sound is interesting.
I'm imaging the sound that's usually written as "tsk!"; is this correct?
posted by mr_roboto at 5:16 PM on January 23, 2009
I'm imaging the sound that's usually written as "tsk!"; is this correct?
posted by mr_roboto at 5:16 PM on January 23, 2009
Summary:
Subtle Caribbean gestures or vocalizations used to express disapproval or establish pecking order.
These are different all over the world, but every culture has them.
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 5:26 PM on January 23, 2009
Subtle Caribbean gestures or vocalizations used to express disapproval or establish pecking order.
These are different all over the world, but every culture has them.
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 5:26 PM on January 23, 2009
This is still here?
Tsk-tsk.
posted by mr_crash_davis mark II: Jazz Odyssey at 5:35 PM on January 23, 2009
Tsk-tsk.
posted by mr_crash_davis mark II: Jazz Odyssey at 5:35 PM on January 23, 2009
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Or possibly give us a link that works?
posted by Caduceus at 4:58 PM on January 23, 2009