Vrooooom!

Apparently, we all talk with our own sound effects.

I never really noticed it until I laughed at my wife for doing it, but people talk with sound effects more than I would have guessed. Her reply to my laugh was, “Doesn’t everybody talk like that?” I did not have an answer. Instead, I just started listening to people.

What I noticed is that people really do make their own sound effects.

“Vrooooom.”
“Rat-a-tat-tat!”
“Kablooie!”
“Splooooosh.”

These simple onomatopoeia do not do the actual soun...