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10/14/2002 9:55 AM
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Sigh. TEd, TEd, TEd. You only need the part up to Number=nnnnn.
Cut the url off there and you'll still get a working link but you won't
be widing up the page so everbody's got to go sliding back and forth to
read everthang. Sigh.
Not to mention that I wasn't picking anyone's nit when I made that one of my own.
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#82459
10/14/2002 2:22 PM
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Btw, I owe bonzaialsatian an apology - it was never my intention to shanghai the thread, as seems to have been the result. So let me reinitiaize it now:
Sneeze-words! Depictions of the sound of sneezing:
English: Ah-choo!/Ker-choo!
Chinese: Han-chee!
Hebrew: Itush!
Czech: Kychnut! (my favorite)
Indonesian: Wa-hing!
French: A-tchouin!
Russian: Ap-chi!
Any more?!
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#82460
10/14/2002 2:31 PM
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another dimension: do you sneeze in bright lights?
I had this vision of all those tiny droplets spraying out of the sneezers mouth in glowing and gleaming lights!
That rattling noise you hear is me, shaking my head to clear it.
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10/14/2002 2:38 PM
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me, shaking my head to clear it.
The Ooohs and Aaahs are from me, marvelling at the scintillating specks cascading out of your ears.
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10/14/2002 7:22 PM
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Good zai:
Even more interesting is the response to a sneeze.
God bless. Bless you. Gesundheit. and several others which I have at the moment forgotten. They are all evocative of the sound of the sneeze itself.
TEd
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10/14/2002 7:25 PM
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I can sneeze, "Sneeze!"
The ASp claims it comes out three syllables.
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10/14/2002 7:52 PM
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Did you ever realize how contagious a yawn, or yawning, is? Just the sight of someone yawning, or the mere thought of a yawn, can trigger it.....ahhhhhhhhh! I'm yawning now...I bet you are, too! Seriously. (and it always feels so good!)
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10/14/2002 7:57 PM
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Faldage is just being a literalist
... aka nitpicker.No "aka", AnnaS...definitely a nitpicker through and through...nitpicking is deliberate. A diehard descriptivist like Faldage could never be a prescriptivist (aka literalist!)  He was just faldaging again...(ahem!)
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10/14/2002 8:07 PM
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WO'N...n (never even heard of this until, now...and I was going to ask TEd's genetic question, and think milum's offering about clearing the sinuses from dust upon waking in the morning is plausible [for both sexes]).
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10/14/2002 8:19 PM
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What nitpicking? WW said that staring at the sun was a stupid thing to do if you wanted to screw up your vision. Stupidity of wanting to screw up your vision aside staring at the sun would be a pretty effective way of doing it and not stupid if that were your goal.
I'm glad I'm not the nitpicker here anymore if that's what the art has come to.
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10/14/2002 8:26 PM
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I never heard of sneezing due to bright lights. I have come out of many theaters, and
do not remember ever hearing a sneeze. So I have learned something. I found a site
with quote from a small "peer-reviewed quarterly journal", from which I took a pertinent
quote:
"The mechanism of the bright light sneeze reflex seems to be an association of optic nerve
fibers and trigeminal nerve nucleus in the mid-brain. The trigeminal nerve's second division
supplies sensory fibers to the nasal mucosa. It is postulated that nerve impulses travelling
up the optic nerve will cause a sympathetic discharge down the trigeminal nerve fibers.
Another mechanism postulates that partial squinting of the eyes resulting from the
bright light causes squeezing of the lacrimal sac which results in tears running down the
nasolacrimal duct into the nasal cavity, causing stimulation ofthe nasal cavity and a sneeze. "
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#82469
10/14/2002 8:28 PM
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am i the only one here who makes serial sneezes? i almost never sneeze a single time, but 3 to 5 to 7 sneezes in a row...sometimes immediately one after another, sometimes with a few seconds between the sneezes.
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#82470
10/14/2002 8:40 PM
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Helen, I don't enjoy multiple sneezes as often as I'd like, but I do know men envy them. <ahem>
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10/14/2002 8:42 PM
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I'm glad I'm not the nitpicker here anymore "Tell the big lie often enough and soon everyone will believe you"  --Goebbels
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10/14/2002 8:58 PM
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In reply to:
WW said that staring at the sun was a stupid thing to do if you wanted to screw up your
vision.
Oh, come on, Faldage. Give me a break here. I took it back, didn't I? Didn't I write way up there, even before Cap Ki's snap-on hoods for the Klan, that I shoulda written that staring at the sun is a stupid thing to do, and it will screw up your vision?
Is my originally poorly phrased phrase going to huant me to the end of my days here on AWAD? Am I to be forever pursued by men with snap-on hoods picking my nits, even after apologizing for 'em? Whaddaya want me to do? Go run into a wall or somefin?
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#82473
10/14/2002 9:10 PM
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I knew a girl in college who was a repeat sneezer- 72 times at one count...crazy at a party...
for me, usually two or three at a sneezing.
bright lights don't do it for me.
formerly known as etaoin...
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#82474
10/14/2002 9:24 PM
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I know I'm biased here, WW, but it wasn't Faldage who brought this up again. <ahem> 
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10/14/2002 9:29 PM
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Please forgive a switch to a slightly different photic reflex. A friend who owned a Piper Cub aircraft took up a student, who attempted to land heading toward the setting sun. He had an epileptic seizure, and only prompt administration of Bulgarian anaesthesia using the fire extinguisher enabled my friend to regain control of the plane and land safely. The student later told him that flickering lights such a sun through the propeller could cause him to have a seizure. I had never heard of it, and was tempted to think it was nonsense. But I found out that it is a recognized entity. Here's a URL: http://www.epilepsy.org.uk/info/photofrm.html
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10/14/2002 9:38 PM
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In reply to:
I know I'm biased here, WW, but it wasn't Faldage who brought this up again. <ahem>
OK. I'm confused, but what's new? All I know is I haven't read this thread for a while, and this afternoon I decided to see what was going on...on the sneeze thread. I mean, how much can we really write about sneezing? This isn't exactly one of those threads that you have to read carefully three times a day to keep up with.
And what should I find here, on Oct. 14th, but Faldage still going at poor WW over what I'd said not very well, but then straightened out...you know?
I like what Sparteye said, however, about sneezing in bright lights because I know it took her a while to key it in.
...Why not?...
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10/14/2002 10:12 PM
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When prompted by some allergic reaction, such as an abundance of dust, I will continue sneezing until I can get my hands on a wad of Kleenex. I think my personal record is somewhere in the twenties. Too much of a good thing eventually gets to be boring . The best sneeze I ever had in my life was this past spring. If only I knew exactly how I performed that chiropractic sneeze I'd do that one again and again and again......I felt wonderful for days after. *sigh*
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#82478
10/14/2002 10:15 PM
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sometimes, Annastrophic, as sneeze is just a sneeze. even if you sneeze a half dozen times in rapid succession
then again...
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10/14/2002 10:28 PM
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The Spanish word for sneeze is estornudo and the most unusual consistent noise I ever heard a sneezer make was made by one of my Mexican sister-in-laws or is that sisters-in-law?. Her's was a truncated "heep", almost like a chopped off beginning of a hiccough. Curiously, the Spanish for hiccough is hipo pronounced ee-po. Let the discussion on hiccough vs hiccup begin!
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#82480
10/15/2002 7:52 AM
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My mom is one of those serial sneezers of whom you speak, ot. Without fail, she sneezes three times in rapid succession, then there's a pause of thirty seconds or so, and she has one final nostril-blaster.
I'm not typically a serial sneezer, but now that I've developed Midwest allergies, I've been known to get several in one sitting. My normal pattern is one if it's just a standard sneeze, two if I'm getting sick.
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10/15/2002 10:09 AM
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the big lie
This from someone who doesn't know the difference between picking nits and rattling chains.
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10/15/2002 2:10 PM
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sometimes, Annastrophic, as sneeze is just a sneeze. even if you sneeze a half dozen times in rapid succession
then again... Close but no cigar, Dr. Troy.
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#82483
10/15/2002 4:10 PM
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Just the sight of someone yawning, or the mere thought of a yawn, can trigger it
You're absolutely, 100% right, Juan!
Yawns are even more contagious than laughter. Although it's more difficult to stop contagious laughter once started..
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#82484
10/15/2002 6:26 PM
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I've heard that cats are the only other species susceptible to this yawn phenomenon - so if you yawn at a cat, you can make it yawn. Same as a baby - that's the way to get them to pop their ears if they're having trouble on an airplane - establish eye contact and yawn at the kid.
The weird things I pull out of my brain.
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#82485
10/16/2002 1:21 PM
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if you yawn at a cat, you can make it yawnI believe that's subtly different, FB - it's about you and the cat saying that you are relaxed in one another's company. You can also try letting your eyes close slowly, and often a friendly cat will copy you, showing that it is relaxed in your presence. It'll often, say, jump into your lap after. Didn't know about the baby reaction, though. Have to try that.
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10/17/2002 4:39 PM
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Not just cats, I think I can make my dog yawn...
What about contagious hiccups?
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#82488
10/22/2002 9:08 PM
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I sneeze in bright sunlight, too. I don't remember anyone else in my family doing it. I always wondered why sunlight made me sneeze.
And I also wonder why it's impossible to keep your eyes open while sneezing!
wordfreak in MA
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10/22/2002 11:07 PM
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In reply to:
And I also wonder why it's impossible to keep your eyes open while sneezing!
On an episode of Super Man, the caped hero caused a character to sneeze, and, while the character was sneezing, Super Man changed from Clark Kent into his super self...you know, because the character had to close his eyes during the sneeze. I spent a hecukva lot of childhood time, consequently, trying to teach myself to keep my eyes open while sneezing so I could catch Super Man in the act.
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10/23/2002 3:49 AM
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Thanks for the link, hev! Yawned three times while I was reading that!
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10/23/2002 4:11 AM
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the big lieThis from someone who doesn't know the difference between picking nits and rattling chains.Faldaaaaage!!!...or is it Faldoooooge!!!? It is I, your partner Jacob Marley! (rattle, rattle) Don't cringe there in the corner, Mr. Faldoooooge!!! I've come to tell you that presently you shall be visited, some deep night, by three spirits...The Ghost of Nitpick Past, The Ghost of Nitpick Present, and The Ghost of Nitpick Future...there is no escaping these visitations, for you have earned them handily, haven't you, Mr. Faldoooooge?!!! (rattle, rattle) These chains, too, shall be yours...ohhh, I promise they will!...and I depart with the rattle of their heaviness binding my soul... Behold!...and farewell........Faldooge! Faldooooge!! Faldoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooge!!!! 
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10/23/2002 9:44 AM
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there is no escaping these visitations
Ha!
Bum bug.
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10/26/2002 10:16 AM
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eyes open while sneezingA popular playground horror story I was always told was that if you do sneeze with your eyes open your eyeballs pop out!
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04/18/2003 8:52 PM
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This link, Find Out Why Yawns Are Contagious, showed up on my homepage today. It's a pretty thorough look at the yawn contagion phenomenon: >Why Are Yawns Contagious? Did you yawn just reading this title? We yawn not only when we're sleepy, but also when we see someone else yawn, read about yawns, or even think about yawning. Sneezing, coughing, and burping aren't contagious. What is it about yawns that can set off a chain reaction? Scientists are still trying to figure that one out. But they have some ideas. What is a yawn? Scientific American defines yawning as a "stereotypical reflex characterized by a single deep inhalation with the mouth open and stretching of muscles of the jaw and trunk." It's involuntary. We aren't the only ones who yawn. Cats, dogs, and even fish yawn. The average yawn lasts about six seconds, and your heart rate can rise as much as 30 percent during a yawn. Why do we yawn? Yawning could be a signal of changing conditions within your body, Mark A. W. Andrews, associate professor of physiology at the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, told Scientific American. That is, we yawn when our state of alertness is changing. That is why we yawn when we're tired and when we wake up. It was once thought that we yawned in order to suck in more air when oxygen levels were low in our lungs. But scientists now know that the lungs can't sense oxygen levels--so that theory goes out the window. Besides, fetuses yawn even though their lungs are not ventilated. And there is absolutely no credence to the idea that we yawn when we're bored. So why are yawns contagious? Professor Andrews told Scientific American yawns may be contagious because we human animals are trying to communicate changing environmental conditions to others, possibly as a way to synchronize behavior. Obviously, this would be one of those caveman-type mechanisms that is no longer needed that our bodies remember and still do. When we yawn, we draw in more oxygen and remove a build-up of carbon dioxide. Larger groups produce more carbon dioxide. So one theory holds that we yawn when we're in large groups of people to purge the carbon dioxide--and in so doing, we set off a chain reaction. But Robert Provine, a psychologist at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, tested the theory and says it's bunk. Giving people additional oxygen didn't decrease yawning and decreasing the amount of carbon dioxide in a subject's environment also didn't prevent yawning, notes the How Stuff Works Web site. Whatever the reason for yawns being contagious, How Stuff Works reports that 55 percent of people will yawn within five minutes of seeing someone else yawn. In addition, blind people will yawn after hearing others yawning. And we're sure that reading and writing about yawns is enough to induce one! --Cathryn Conroy< http://makeashorterlink.com/?Q61811344(ahhhhhhh!....Are ya yawning, yet? :))
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04/18/2003 11:53 PM
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I posted this down below the fold in Animal Safari. Since Juan resurrected this thread, I thought I'd pull it up here so maybe more would enjoy it: How do different people around the world imitate animal sounds? Find out here!http://www.flat33.com/bzzzpeek/index1.html
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04/19/2003 1:00 AM
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yawn soundsI was wondering what the proper written onomatopoeic sound would be for the yawn...when I made the above post, "ahhhhh" just didn't seem to make it. Anybody? Animal SoundsCute, AnnaS! But, other than the bee, all I get is animal flags? [EDIT: Auggghhhh!® Got it! Click on each flag after they come up. Dummy me.  ]
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04/19/2003 8:04 AM
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EEEE...CCI'
(the number of E's shows the intensity of the sneezing)
and, consuelo, in Italian we call that starnuto.
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