There's something oddly satisfying about the word "hork" in any form.

[alice@lgbtqia.space]

There's something oddly satisfying about the word "hork" in any form.

- That smells like porpoise hork.
- My cat horked up a hairball.
- The kid sounds like they're horking up a lung.

#MakeHorkHappen #OnamonapiaAppreciationDay

[oddtail@meow.social]

@alice

You know the quasi-lingustic "bouba-kiki" experiment?

I have a pet theory that a lot of appealing words are ones that are somehow a perfect marriage of both "bouba" and "kiki", so that you can't really clearly think of them as one or the other, or at least people will disagree on which one a given word is.

"hork" is a good example of that!

[vestige@sleepyhe.ad]

@alice have a nice piece of horker loaf

[tattered@social.vivaldi.net]

@alice In Cumbria, it is “howl”, as in “Howk it out, lad”. There is a small waterfall near Caldbeck called The Howk. Given that most of the local place names have some derivation from Old Norse, “hork” may well have very old roots.

Just thought I’d share.

[alice@lgbtqia.space]

@oddtail that's a good theory. I think inherently evocative words are really appealing to me, such as ones that are autological, portmanteau, and/or onamonapia.

Now I'm wracking my brain for a word that's all three of those—preferably with a good mix of bouba/kiki.

Edit: I meant autological, not sure why I said hetero-.

[secularjeffrey@ohai.social]

@alice

Hork Tuah?

[saucyswamphag@lgbtqia.space]

@alice Hork! The feral angels sing!

[tuban_muzuru@beige.party]

@alice

Late at night, my cats prefer to hork in the formal dining room, late at night and loudly , ending with a hideous hairball or food.

HORK

[hellomiakoda@pdx.social]

@alice It's better than "hauk"

[w_b@mastodon.world]

@alice

I've also used hork to mean to steal something.

Who horked my pencil?

[alice@lgbtqia.space]

@SaucySwampHag Google: cats barfing to dubstep

[catsalad@infosec.exchange]

@alice @SaucySwampHag The Nissan Hork

[alice@lgbtqia.space]

@SaucySwampHag saved you a search.

https://youtu.be/V0qhsUxifVQ

[mrcranky@hostux.social]

@alice @LibertyForward1
I feel like the lung one should be hocking or hacking. Maybe there’s a regional variation.

[9the4@mastodon.social]

@alice dude I'm stealing porpoise hork

[ramsey@phpc.social]

@alice @catsalad Is there really an onomatopoeia appreciation day?

[fritzadalis@infosec.exchange]

@alice @catsalad
Four hork and seven years ago

[alice@lgbtqia.space]

@9the4 eww, it's all yours!

[alice@lgbtqia.space]

@ramsey there should be, huh.

@catsalad

[hedgewizard@beige.party]

@alice
Sticking with glort