Yeeearch!

Ok so I don’t know what that word is I used in the title. But what I want to ask is, what are your favorite phonetically spelled out sound effects or reaction words? They can often convey much more easily one’s feeling or intent. I was chatting with a friend the other day and they spelled out “blaarrghh!” Definitely a sound or expression of disgust… somewhere between blah and a barfing sound effect.

Another favorite was when Llew used “erlack!” in the retelling of an experience via her blog. Maybe I’m just easily amused but I got a kick out of that one.

Any other good ones?


Comments

8 responses to “Yeeearch!”

  1. I don’t talk in words – only in chirps. So other than “erlack” there’s:

    Meh. (I use this when someone asks how I’m doing and it’s not so good)
    eeep!
    ack!

    and there’s some others but I’m tire. Blah.

  2. very bloom countyish…

  3. My favorite is ‘ppffff’ – when someone says something ridiculous or sarcastic to you. 🙂

  4. is that pianissimo-“quadruple forte”?

  5. lo. guess what? I updated my blog — and changed the template a bit too. Woo hoo!

  6. Oh, another one is “Erh” When someone says something inappropriate and I don’t know how to respond I always go, “Erhhhh”

  7. how about MSG’D! or 404’D! or as you were most recently: SPAMM’D!

  8. Tell me about it. It’s such great fun spending an hour going through and deleting each of those comments individually… over a hundred of them! “I’ll improve on YOUR methods!”