Sound of a Kiss - 17 March 2014

A Way with Words - language, linguistics, and callers from all over

A Way with Words

Education, Language Learning, Society & Culture

4.6 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2014

⏱️ 53 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

You’re at a social gathering and meet someone you’d like to know better. What do you ask to get a real conversation going? Some people lead with “What do you do?,” while others avoid talking about work entirely. Still others ask, “Where’d you go to high school?’ Also, the fancy way linguists describe the sound of a kiss. And what does it really mean when someone “breaks bad”? Plus, alight and come in, rustle my jimmies, grammatical calques, mashtag potatoes, comprise vs. compose, bangs vs. fringe, virgas and virgules, and bad Bible jokes. Read full show notes, hear hundreds of free episodes, send your thoughts and questions, and learn more on the A Way with Words website: https://waywordradio.org/contact. Be a part of the show: call 1 (877) 929-9673 toll-free in the United States and Canada; worldwide, call or text/SMS +1 (619) 800-4443. Email [email protected]. Twitter @wayword. Copyright Wayword, Inc., a 501(c)(3) corporation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	This is Samsung S23 FE's greatest hits, with hits such as Super Fast Processing Speed,
0:07.0	and Spectacular Camera.
0:10.0	The new phone with all the greatest hits from 599 pounds.
0:17.0	Buy the Galaxy S23 FE to claim 294 pounds worth of rewards, including 100 pounds cashback
0:23.2	purchase from a participating retailer by the 25th of Jan 24
0:26.2	claimed cash back within 30 days of purchase
0:27.8	tease and sees apply Samsung.com pricing shown
0:30.2	you're listening to a way with words the show about language and how we use it.
0:33.2	I'm Grant Barrett.
0:34.2	And I'm Martha Barnett.
0:35.6	Let's talk about kissing.
0:37.8	Okay.
0:38.8	In English, if you want to render the sound of a noisy kiss, you usually write something like m-o-a-a-h, or m u-a-a-h a h for some people. Yeah. Something like that. That's what I would write. Yeah, in parts of South America you would write CHU I K.
0:54.0	Chook.
0:55.0	Oh, nice.
0:56.0	Nice, right.
0:57.0	And there are different spellings for this kind of thing all over the world.
1:00.0	But if you ever need a sophisticated term for the sound of a kiss, you can always use the one that linguists use, which is bilebial-lingual-ingressive click.
1:10.0	Nice, right?
1:13.0	Bile linguist.
1:15.0	Say it again, please.
1:16.0	Hey baby, give me a bi-labial-ingueguegressive click.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from A Way with Words, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of A Way with Words and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.