On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 09:00:31PM -0500, Chris Turkel wrote: > On Tuesday, March 11, 2003, at 06:32 PM, Jose Marquez wrote: > >Mark A Mandel wrote: > >>The interjections often written as > >> "Uh-huh" or "M-hm" > >> and > >> "Uh-uh" > >>affirmative and negative respectively, could reasonably also be called > >>grunts. > > > >Oh. For some reason, I've always imagined the grunt as something more > >guttural. I'm a dope. > > Me too, I guess. Thats what I think and when I write grunts thats what > I mean. The grunt that I think of as guttural is a closed-mouth version of "eh", and also carries a similar meaning of indifference. A closed-mouth not-so-guttural kind might be like "hrm" or "hmm" but without the h, also similarly indicating "I'm pondering."