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Herbie Popnecker Examples:
Speech Patterns:
Says YUK-YUK to Express Laughter

Created: 2012-12-30 Updated: 2012-12-29
Stories: 4 Examples: 5 Links: 11

Says 'HA-HA' (40 examples)
Says 'HO-HO' (11 examples)
Says 'HEH-HEH' (21 examples)
Says 'HAW-HAW' (24 examples)

YUK-YUK is a self-congratulatory laugh used along with HAW-HAW and sometimes HO-HO by villains.

Villains do the most laughing in Herbie stories, usually a maniacal laugh like HA-HA, HO-HO, and YUK-YUK, but also sinister or insincere laughs like HEH-HEH and nasty laughs like HAW-HAW! Several interjections are used for laughter: HA-HA 28, HEH-HEH 24, HAW-HAW-HAW 12, HAW-HAW 11, ... and the majority are the evil laughs of villains 83/116 = 72% (18% of villain interjections are laughs). Males, animals, and Dad laughs a little (Dad, a weak HEH-HEH), but Mom never laughs. Herbie laughs just once, but it's ironic.

Index terms: emotion, interjection, exclamation, laugh, laughing, Richard E. Hughes, Ogden Whitney

HAW-HAW-HAW! YUK-YUK!

Source: Herbie #13b p.8 (1965-10)

Updated: 2012-12-29

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