Guys, I'm about to go on a strangely specific tangent that is going to make me seem a little unhinged and I hope you're ready. 🤠
I just remembered a thing today...
It was a bit of a delayed thought connected to some things brought up days ago - specifically, Sal laughing and how she laughs (if you see this, hi, Vervain. Haha!)
So, for those unaware: Sal isn't really much of a laugher. If she laughs, it's usually something more subtle, BUT... because Sal isn't much of a laugher, I was reminded of something relevant...
A writing/artist/creative buddy from "times of yore" that I wrote plenty of things with - we realized there was this dilemma about there being, from what we could see, no way of literarily expressing a very, very specific means of laughing/expressing amusement.
You know when something is just funny enough to where you just... let that little huff of air out of your nostrils? It's like a snort, but "snort" just comes off too strong or too forceful... it's also like a snicker, but a snicker feels as though it implies a series of those exhalations. Neither of those words feel quite like they capture it...
In a fit of rage, I remember trying to find a word that encapsulated that sort of laugh and couldn't seem to turn up any answers for the life of me... instead, I happened upon others going through the same struggle!
So, we made up our own word for that.
Just because it was so strongly desired. Because, for me, it was the Sal laugh. It was the only thing that truly captured what she was doing, most of the time!
Not a snort, not quite a snicker... a "snick."
snick (snĭk)
v. snicked, snick·ing, snicks
(A different form of snick than the already existing snick, by the way - or even a possible addition to the definitions list of it!)
Derivative of both "snort" and "snicker." It more specifically encapsulates a single, soft, subtle exhalation of air - softer than a "snort" vs. a series of exhalations, which often form a "snicker."
I now wish one of two things:
1. That this word (or this definition of it) was actually accepted in the English dictionary and vernacular so I could help all of those still suffering to find "that one specific word," (including myself.)
2. That there is actually "that one specific word" out there that captures that expression that I either never managed to find back then or someone else finally published into existence.
I can only write about Sal supposedly "snickering" or "chuckling" so many times before I'm just like "this isn't who you are" and I feel a traitor to her and myself as a representative...! Hahaha!
And it is to this end that I mention this as well: what could be a snick often ends up as being yet another smile for her, nowadays. She's always smiled a lot, of course! But, given the fact that I can't find a word for "snick" and refuse to use that term as it doesn't really literarily check out makes her even more quiet and "mysterious" than she's ever been. :)
Anyway, thank you for coming to my TED talk.
That will be all for now.
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i didnt know they let fucking bacteriums into the puppy bowl
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I gotta do something proper for the Noise Update PT resurgence but in the meantime here's some PT character requests I had asked for ages ago and forgot to upload.
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