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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)
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All I've ever seen is 'sound of derision'. Sorry.
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Poster: zmjezhd Well, I'd have to hear how you pronounce it, but the way I do I'd transcribe as /pft/ (or more narrowly [pft̚]) in IPA and if I had to tell somebody what that transcription was, I'd use: a voiceless bilabial-labiodental affricate which transitions into a voiceless unreleased alveolar stop. Now that's a term of elegant literary possibilities: “Don't you still love me, Robert?” says Ida, worrying the cord of her bathrobe. Without looking up from the floor on which he has just spat, Robert emits a voiceless bilabial-labiodental affricate which transitions into a voiceless unreleased alveolar stop, acidly.
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“Don't you still love me, Robert?” says Ida, worrying the cord of her bathrobe. Without looking up from the floor on which he has just spat, Robert emits a voiceless bilabial-labiodental affricate which transitions into a voiceless unreleased alveolar stop, acidly.
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elegant literary possibilities
/ʘ/!
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Sorry if I "ron" the joke, zmjezhd, but can you 'splain cos I don't get it.
Wiki says the bullseye symbol is IPA for a click consonant. You've put it between two solidi in response to "elegant literary possibilities".
What gives?
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can you 'splain
It's a bilabial click. The sound of a kiss. It's between virgules because that's where one usually finds IPA (wide) transcriptions, and it ends with an exclamation point to mark its emphatic nature.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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>The sound of a kiss.
Okay, it's the sound of a kiss. Okay. But why are you kissing elegant literary possibilities—and ron be damned!
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How'd you know it was a bullseye, Hydra? All I ever see is two slashes with an empty box between them.
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You don't see it? Must be something to do with your browser. For example, mine sees Bishnupriya Manipuri Script as rows of identical boxes.
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