Noises we make
Do you ever have a day that you just want to scream? Not at anything in particular, but for the fact that you just want to scream. To release. To expel possible pent up energy, or to gain some energy that you feel you are lacking in. Maybe out of frustration at a current situation or possibly out of excitement. The reasoning list is long. And sometimes the reason is that you just feel like screaming. Not at anyone. Just getting the excess air out of your lungs, mouth, etc.
Why do people feel the need to make such weird, not words but sounds throughout the day? There is nothing bad about them, I am just as curious as a cat, like all the time. I suppose I could go around and ask my co-workers if they have days like that. That would require time and a process of how to compute the quantity of information taken by said subjects, but alas they are not just specimens for me to observe and report my findings. Even though it could be fun.
There is a particular saying that goes around the 3rd floor office area that now gets a chuckle or a repetitive callback, if you will: “Ay-yia-yia.”
It’s a great thing to just mumble or express and it can encapsulate so many different meanings and feelings. Try it. It just feels good. One reporter in particular brought it into the vocabulary of the third floor and it stuck. Happily. At least for the composing department. It’s literally just a sound to make when trying to think of what to say, to bring design ideas to the mind and a good filler when things just seem too quiet. You can elongate it too. So versatile. It brings me to question why humans like filler words or phrases to replace other meanings.
The answer isn’t as easy to find and there are so many articles as to why people choose to say things like “like,” “um,” and “ahh” (an almost tiny scream, just more monotone and with less inflection). Most findings show that the person who is talking is wanting to keep the conversation flowing with the attention on them as to not lose their turn in talking.
I wonder if people making weird sounds is just something that has carried on from our archaic days. When languages were just a series of grunts and sounds that the other homeosapiens understood. I am not a scholar in language and do not study early human life in the world but wouldn’t that be fun to be able to sit down with a scholar and let imaginations and reality mix and combine? That would be up my alley however, what I may find fun and exciting could definitely be a bore for others and during it, you might be finding yourself saying, “aye-yia-yia” to make the time pass faster.
In any capacity, maybe think of the words and or random sayings that you use as fillers and just wonder about them for a bit. Where did they come from? A friend, relative, or just your own mind?
“Be curious, not judgmental” to your own mind.
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