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On The Pronunciation Of Nom Nom Nom
18 years ago
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No really, I'm serious. Why are you looking at me like that?
It just recently occurred to me that I may have been doing this wrong. I was first introduced to the wonderful little onomatopoeia that is "nom nom nom" as I became more involved in the furry fandom earlier this year.
Nom nom nom. He he. Cute.
Then it struck me. My default pronunciation in my Australian accent is almost certainly not what the author (likely to be North American, as statistics goes around here) originally intended. And so the onomatopoeia is not actually onomatopoeic, and it fails.
Here's the thing. I pronounce "nom" with very rounded lips, a bit like (but not as tight as) the sound you get for saying just the very start of the w in a word like (funnily enough) "word". (I'm sure that's not quite right, but it's hard for me to imagine how to describe it properly to an audience that doesn't often make use of this particular phoneme.)
On the other hand, I now realise that the dominant North American pronunciation may well be what I would consider as saying "Nahm nahm nahm" (with "ah" as in... "Ahh" ). Having thought about it, this makes some sense --- a more open mouthed, more vigorous devouring. For some reason, though, I think my way sounds cuter.
So, then, after all this pointless madness about a silly little noise-phrase, riddle me this: Is my hunch correct?
It just recently occurred to me that I may have been doing this wrong. I was first introduced to the wonderful little onomatopoeia that is "nom nom nom" as I became more involved in the furry fandom earlier this year.
Nom nom nom. He he. Cute.
Then it struck me. My default pronunciation in my Australian accent is almost certainly not what the author (likely to be North American, as statistics goes around here) originally intended. And so the onomatopoeia is not actually onomatopoeic, and it fails.
Here's the thing. I pronounce "nom" with very rounded lips, a bit like (but not as tight as) the sound you get for saying just the very start of the w in a word like (funnily enough) "word". (I'm sure that's not quite right, but it's hard for me to imagine how to describe it properly to an audience that doesn't often make use of this particular phoneme.)
On the other hand, I now realise that the dominant North American pronunciation may well be what I would consider as saying "Nahm nahm nahm" (with "ah" as in... "Ahh" ). Having thought about it, this makes some sense --- a more open mouthed, more vigorous devouring. For some reason, though, I think my way sounds cuter.
So, then, after all this pointless madness about a silly little noise-phrase, riddle me this: Is my hunch correct?
Awesome avatar BTW. :D
*clears throat*
I mean, thanks. ;)
What kind of laser is purple? That doesn't look like 488 nm...
The laser is supposed to be 410nm, violet, so getting an accurate colour onscreen is tricky/impossible. Purple suffices. (Though it's probably more blue than I've drawn. Bleh, I call artistic license.) As for the generator, it's actually frequency-doubled from 820nm source using a BBO crystal.