allergicold

special occasion letters:

r is for those really harsh or barking sneezes, where it rips out of their throat (and probably leaves it a bit raw 😳),

rRASSHhiew!!

hhRRESSCHHHUHHh!!

y gives a lilting tonality and vocalization to a sneeze, like in a really indignant "hiih'YISSHHiew!"

j is a a softening and lengthening that often accompanies a d, "hh'DJSSCHhh!" it's a little wet or congested but probably not totally blocked, caught on the roof of the mouth before the teeth

m and f are muffling sounds, like when theyre sneezing into something. n could be there too, m sits on the lips while n reverberates in the mouth "hmMFSSCHHh!" "ntSCHhuh-!"

k is the catching high in the throat, "hih! kCHHiiew!!" "aAH'KSSHHiuhh!"

p is the sloppy tripping over the lips, "hAH'PtsHHh'uhh!" perhaps they were caught off guard somehow, or out of it, or they're simply a messy sneezer.

z is the harsh buzzing of a sneeze through the teeth, "HH'zZSCHHh!!" half held back or snarled out

ok punctuation!

the apostrophe is a little stop, the tiniest pause between letters, delineating syllable stress but not much else. an apostrophe followed by a space is a longer pause. usually this naturally falls between the inhale or hold and the release, but sometimes is skipped to indicate a fast-flowing sneeze. or there may be another for a tripping, dramatic, multi-syllable sneeze: haH'ETCH'IEWW!

an exclamation can also be used at the point where the apostrophe often falls in a sneeze.

it makes the pause a little harsher and lends emphasis to the syllable before. likewise, it adds drama to a hitch.

ih, ihh, iH,

ih! ihh-! iH!!

see the difference? the commas add flow, indicating the hitches came in a steady sequence like speaking. different punctuation adds a different rhythm to them.

the hyphen before the exclamation adds just like. the teeniest little dazed waiting point into the sound. capitalization in the end or middle adds the rising volume and emphasis where you want it. double hyphens or em dashes add a great deal of that frozen moments between breaths or before the sneeze

hihh-- - --iTCCHHhhiuhh!!

a question mark adds the rising intonation that many languages use to indicate well. questioning. it adds a wavering uncertainty and upwards lilt

eh? ehhH? heH'ISHHHHh!!

bolding adds even MORE emphasis to the parts of the sneeze with a lot of oomph, or to indicate that it's one of those blow-the-house-down gigantic or dad sneezes. can also be used to great effect especially on the congestion syllables. hih'IDGTCHH'uhh--!

hhHHAH'YSSSHH'OOOo!!

ahhhh, stifles. perhaps one of the hardest sounds to conceptualize or capture!!

ngt, ngk, ndt are caught in the nose, that kind of strangled grunt in the sinuses

hhNgGt!'hiuhh

hh- nnkt, nhk, nngt, nGGKt'huhhh...

hHh-- mNGGtCHh!!

ipt, hpt, nkk, mpt are the quieter stifles at the mouth or back of the throat

hhMPt'chuhh

hih-- ipt! (hhhh)

x added to it adds that breathy, staticy congested sound-- hngxxt!!

q is a very strange one and maybe just imo but to me is like a k but more liquid, very specific kind of strangled stifle. nqqt-!

brief shoutout to the kind of half stifles where it's just like, hitch, stop, half the release like,

ih-! 'tchhiEW!

eH? --chh'uhh!!

also going back a bit, can i shout out to vowel combinations?

aESHH

IESHH

EISHH

AISHH

are all much loved nuance-adding differentiations. ae adds that "ah-eh" sound with a hint of ee, ie is "ee-eh," ei is "eyy-ih," and ai is "ah-ih," making an almost "I," (like the personal pronoun) sound

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first, the inhale- "ih" is a sound drawn high into the mouth, maybe mostly from the nose eh is a sound lower in the mouth ah is a full-throated inhale hh is the quieter, unvoiced neutral uh is a deep, desperate quality

sufficient drama built up in your head? now for the the release:

several kinds of snzs here:

"shh" for a breathy, hissy quality; "sch" roughens it, "szch" scrapes it through the teeth or throat, "sxch" adds a nasal static to the sound

"ch" for a punched out release sound

someone who is congested or holding back may begin to add consonants like "dch" "kch" "kxsh" "dshh" "gch" etc into the sound (mix and match as necessary).

followed by the exhale sound,

further "hhh" for a one-syllable release "ESSCHHh!" like a really quick sneeze,

"uhh" for a neutral sigh at the end "ooo," "uu," etc for that kind of voiced "choo" sound "iew" "iuu" etc is a rising intonation at the end, maybe described as higher pitched

now puzzle together to describe the sound, using capitals/italics/bolds to show where emphasis or extra loudness lands

"huh'ESSHHhuhh!!"

"hih- ih- ihh! hiiih'ISShhiew!"

"hah'EDTcCH'iuhh…"

"HAAESSHHOoo!!"

"iGDt!'CHhiiuu!"

this does not touch special occasion letters like rr, y, j, etc, or the holdback noises for stifled or partially stifled sneezes,,, ohhh or more detailed buildup tonals/punctuation breakdown... maybe i will try to do a secondary half for those later ^^;; the 501 class x'D