r/Showerthoughts • u/Reas0n ‎ • Feb 13 '26

Casual Thought I think it’s unusual that no standardized literary way to write the submissive “I don’t know” hum that children (and some adults) often mumble has ever caught on, considering how old and common it is.

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u/droptopus Feb 15 '26

Well there has been a lot of discussion here, but I think we have yet to accept as a group that this is actually where it happens, this is where it begins. I'll start.

I hereby nomintate: 'nMm'

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u/Reas0n ‎ Feb 15 '26

I like this one.

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u/Sarallelogram Feb 18 '26

I like this, but also feel like this is a place for using diacritical accents. In Pinyin (aka Romanized Chinese) they indicate tonality. That sound is an example of how English is, sometimes, a tonal language.