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#68872
05/05/2002 9:29 PM
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Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 1,773
Pooh-Bah
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Pooh-Bah
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YUCK - A typical ejaculation* when confronted with something disgusting. Also, "ewwwwww."
Are these onomatopoeic? What terms do other cultures and languages usually use?
*You boys in the back, control yourselves.
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#68873
05/05/2002 9:34 PM
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Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 13,858
Carpal Tunnel
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Carpal Tunnel
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Dear Sparteye: Doesn't "Yuck" sound a little like vomiting? And the "Eeeew" is always said with a disappproving tone and expression.
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#68874
05/06/2002 12:33 AM
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Joined: Nov 2000
Posts: 819
old hand
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old hand
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[vomit color]Are these onomatopoeic?[/vomit color]
I've long thought that "RALPH" was, but I can't hear the onomatopaea in 'YUCK" or "Eeeewwww," though the latter does sound similar to the sound of air escaping from one's lungs as an involuntary reaction to revulsion. Didn't we have a thread on all the different uh - ewwwwphamisms - for reverse peristalsis?
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#68875
05/07/2002 12:34 AM
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Joined: Jun 2001
Posts: 2,636
Carpal Tunnel
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Carpal Tunnel
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Fuchi - response to a bad smell or anything unclean and revolting
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#68876
05/07/2002 1:11 AM
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Joined: Nov 2000
Posts: 819
old hand
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old hand
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Fuchi - response to a bad smell or anything unclean and revolting
As in two-day-old suchi?
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#68877
05/07/2002 1:13 AM
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Joined: Jun 2001
Posts: 2,636
Carpal Tunnel
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Carpal Tunnel
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Exactamundo! Or the intestinal ramifications of eating such. PeeU!
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#68878
05/07/2002 1:31 AM
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Joined: Sep 2000
Posts: 4,757
Carpal Tunnel
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Carpal Tunnel
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How's that pronounced, Connie?
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#68879
05/07/2002 9:27 AM
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Joined: Jun 2001
Posts: 2,636
Carpal Tunnel
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Carpal Tunnel
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pronounce fuchi: foo-chee The first syllable is strongest.
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#68880
05/07/2002 12:55 PM
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Joined: Oct 2000
Posts: 5,400
Carpal Tunnel
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Carpal Tunnel
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PBS- commercial arm, their stores and catalogs has a great T-Shirt, (which i can just barely remember) for Ralph's Bait and Sushi shop-- It's not clear if left over bait is sushi, or left over sushi is chum.. but one gets the impression Bait came first!
I'll go look and see if i can find a link to it it.
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