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# What the fuck has Humphrey Lyttleton got to do with any of this?
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Sat 9 May 2009, 0:51, archived)
#
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/humph
(k3b/-\b Peace man., Sat 9 May 2009, 0:54, archived)
# That's clearly incorrect.
Being an English gent somewhat au fait with the etymology I would suggest that it is 'harrumph!'
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Sat 9 May 2009, 0:59, archived)
# May I interject?
There would be no etymology in the classical sense for a word such as humph, harrumph or whatever as it is merely a manifestation, in alphic terms, of a sound, therefore rendering it purely ephemeral. Innit blud.
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Sat 9 May 2009, 1:04, archived)
# surely in its use
as an intransitive verb it has an etymology which is echoic?
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Sat 9 May 2009, 1:08, archived)
# Well yes, in theory it would have an etymology
based in onomatapaeic resonance, however, that would of course render it purely subjective, and therefore very difficult to prove wrong. Ya get me rasclart? ;)
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Sat 9 May 2009, 1:11, archived)
# *lists*
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Sat 9 May 2009, 1:13, archived)
# Ha ha ha!
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Sat 9 May 2009, 1:14, archived)
# As an act of phatic communication,
it doesn't really matter what sound is made,
the facial expression and intonation is
just as important as the vocalisation,
in terms of meaning.
I think I'm agreeing with you.
(I helped save b3ta! enceladus, Sat 9 May 2009, 1:16, archived)
# Undoubtedly.
It is the attempt to write such words that produces such issues :)
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Sat 9 May 2009, 1:19, archived)
# you are only considering it as a noun
when it can clearly be used as a verb and therefore not
onomatapaeic.
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Sat 9 May 2009, 1:26, archived)
# That is may as well be,
but you were the one who brought up the etymology of said word.

The verb would quite patently have derived from the noun. Therefore, your point is moot. ;)
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Sat 9 May 2009, 1:33, archived)
# moot
just means debatable. That's what I've been doing :P
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Sat 9 May 2009, 1:36, archived)
# I was using it in the sense that it was
of no legal significance. So there :P
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Sat 9 May 2009, 1:38, archived)
# FUCK!!
there, have another interjection to consider.
(k3b/-\b Peace man., Sat 9 May 2009, 1:11, archived)
# Shut up maths boy!
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Sat 9 May 2009, 1:14, archived)
# :(
(k3b/-\b Peace man., Sat 9 May 2009, 1:18, archived)
# Don't be sad. You have maths.
(I helped save b3ta! Ttssattsr, Sat 9 May 2009, 1:24, archived)
# I heard he is shit at that too ;)
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Sat 9 May 2009, 1:25, archived)
# that was unnecessary
(k3b/-\b Peace man., Sat 9 May 2009, 1:28, archived)
# Yet still it made me laugh ;)
Sorry fella :D
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Sat 9 May 2009, 1:37, archived)