there are culturally-bound pseudophonemic sounds Scandinavian: oof(dah) English: OI Jewish (I think)?: That kind of eeeehhh?? one makes when they shrug exaggeratedly after a question is asked what are others?
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Replying to @eigenrobot
expressing admiration for an object: “ooo OOO ooooo...” (pretty precise pitches but I don’t know the intervals) - some languages use different vowels and pitch patterns for this
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this can also be used if at any point in a conversation it is implied that somebody has a boyfriend
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oh yes! There must be a lot of semantic mutation
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