Originally Posted By: Hydra
The Pook, you and Faldage appear to be talking at cross-purposes.
So, let me rephrase: Laughter is to "Ha ha ha!" as X is to "Pfft!" What is X?


That's still capable of being taken equivocally. But since 'laughter' is not a phonetic/linguistic/physiological term like 'plosive stop' etc, it sounds like you are not asking for technical terms but a generic everyday term?

Like 'disapprobation' or something? (although that's not specific enough of course)

Last edited by The Pook; 03/11/2008 12:11 AM.