Sound of a Kiss (Rebroadcast) - 20 July 2015

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🗓️ 20 July 2015

⏱️ 52 minutes

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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 words@waywordradio.org. Twitter @wayword. Copyright Wayword, Inc., a 501(c)(3) corporation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.0	I'm Grant Barrett.
0:34.0	And I'm Martha Barnett.
0:35.0	Let's talk about kissing.
0:38.0	Okay.
0:39.0	In English, if you want to render the sound of a noisy kiss,
0:42.0	you usually write something like, m-o-a-a-h,
0:46.1	or m u-a-a-h-a-h-h-h-h-a-h,
0:47.1	yes, something like that.
0:48.5	That's what I would write.
0:49.1	Yeah, in parts of South America,
0:50.8	you would write CHU I K.
0:54.0	Chriek.
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.
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