{"id":310,"date":"2023-11-06T10:23:11","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T15:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/julialipscomb.com\/?p=310"},"modified":"2023-11-20T23:15:39","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T04:15:39","slug":"uh-huh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/julialipscomb.com\/?p=310","title":{"rendered":"word poem: &#8220;uh\u00b7\u200bhuh&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>uh-huh | interjection, particle | \u02c8\u0259\u207f-(\u02cc)h\u0259\u207f | <em>repeated and separated by the voiceless sound<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>: interjection used to indicate affirmation, agreement, or gratification. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/uh-huh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Merriam-Webster\">Merriam-Webster<\/a>)<br>: particle imitative of non-verbal sounds used to indicate agreement or to allow the speaker to continue talking : YES, YEAH (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/uh-huh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Wikipedia\">Wikipedia<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>: interjection, utterance or processing response that is used while hearing someone else speak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>: sound uttered by Logan Roy and other characters from <em>Succession<\/em> when they hear new information and use it to pivot a large business decision. That&#8217;s my theory, but <a href=\"https:\/\/i-d.vice.com\/en\/article\/m7ve7b\/succession-speech-uh-huh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"there are others\">there are others<\/a>. When you look at the many conflicting submissions to define &#8220;uh uh&#8221; on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=Uh-Huh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Urban Dictionary\">Urban Dictionary<\/a>, you start to see how this soft-sounding interjection can sound volatile in different contexts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>In a world where the people are so emotionally stunted and warped by a grasping need for power, a single \u201cuh-huh\u201d can reveal far more than a thousand words could. <\/p>\n<cite>(Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/i-d.vice.com\/en\/article\/m7ve7b\/succession-speech-uh-huh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Vice i-D\">Vice i-D<\/a>)<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Tell me what you think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>uh-huh | interjection, particle | \u02c8\u0259\u207f-(\u02cc)h\u0259\u207f | repeated and separated by the voiceless sound 1 : interjection used to indicate affirmation, agreement, or gratification. (Merriam-Webster): particle imitative of non-verbal sounds used to indicate agreement or to allow the speaker to continue talking : YES, YEAH (Wikipedia) 2 : interjection, utterance or processing response that is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/julialipscomb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/julialipscomb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/julialipscomb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julialipscomb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julialipscomb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/julialipscomb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324,"href":"https:\/\/julialipscomb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions\/324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/julialipscomb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julialipscomb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julialipscomb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}