No accounting for taste

[MajGenl.Meade]

I've lived in the USA for over 30 years. In all that time, I've not heard the expression "nom nom nom" (or num num num) used to indicate keen appreciation of the taste of foodstuffs - not, that is, until the past 4 years.

All right-thinking people know that the correct expression is "yum yum yum". Even USians declare "why, that was yummy!"

No one says "that was nommy".

What is this sudden lingual insanity?

[Lord Jim]

I believe "nom nom nom" is supposed to be a written expression of the sound of a person's lips smacking as they eat quickly...

[wesw]

it the sound of joy made when eating food made by a master chef, as far as I can tell. that s the sound everyone made when they tasted my avatars cooking anyway, not on purpose tho

[Joe Guy]

You cook avatars?

[Gob]

Interviewing your brains Meade, noodle it out? Keep claws sharp, know your groceries, focus your audio, don't be a shape in a drape!

[MajGenl.Meade]

Meaning no offense

M: Um, er...excuse me, um, are you... are you suggesting eating my mother?

(pause)

U: Yeah. Not raw, cooked!

M: What?

U:Roasted with a few french fries, broccoli, horseradish sauce ...

M: Well, I do feel a bit peckish.

U: Great!

M: Can we have some parsnips?

U: (calling) Fred - get some parsnips.

M: I really don't think I should.

U: Look, tell you what, we'll eat her, if you feel a bit guilty about it afterwards, we can dig a grave and you can throw up in it.

[wesw]

sorry joe. I forgot the space where my apostrophe was supposed to be....

that s funny meade. I stopped watching South Park when they fed the one kid his mom in a bowl of chili...

[Big RR]

You have to love that last line.

[MajGenl.Meade]

I believe "nom nom nom" is supposed to be a written expression of the sound of a person's lips smacking as they eat quickly...

Yes, yes, yes - but it's only in the past four years I ever heard it used (here actually). Normal people say yum, yum, yum.

And anyway, lip-smacking doesn't sound at all like "nom".

Nom was a destructive desert creature... Thomas Covenant

[Crackpot]

It's a Japanese idiom that has made it's way over here

See "fap"

[Lord Jim]

Yes, yes, yes - but it's only in the past four years I ever heard it used (here actually). Normal people say yum, yum, yum.

Gen'l, I realize how unsettling it is for you when a new expression enters the popular lexicon, (you probably still haven't gotten over "groovy") but you're just going to have to learn how to chillax...

[wesw]

if you had been watching sesame street you would have seen the cookie monster saying it when you arrived 30 yrs ago

[MajGenl.Meade]

Great - a stupid puppet sets the standard. Why is no one (wesw kind of tried) addressing the issue? No one has ever heard of this until 2010.

[Lord Jim]

Why is no one (wesw kind of tried) addressing the issue?

Now, I'm just spit balling here...

But maybe because it ain't much of an issue?

[Gob]

National Organization for Marriage. A group of people so afraid of same-sex marriage they fail to realize the irony of their acronym, their use of the phrase "Rainbow Coalition", or the acronym for their new project, which is "2M4M".

[Long Run]

Gen'l, I realize how unsettling it is for you when a new expression enters the popular lexicon, (you probably still haven't gotten over "groovy") but you're just going to have to learn how to chillax...

Yea man, it's how we roll.

[Lord Jim]

I'll tell you the one that drives me meshuga...

(Or at least it used to, until I decided that being driven meshuga wasn't a good thing)

It's the whole "up talk" thing...

The ever more pervasive, insidious tendency to end declarative statements with an upward lilt in the voice that makes it sound like a question...

I think there's a clear generational line that can be drawn on this between those born after 1970, and those born before...

I believe this undermining of the English language can be traced to the 1980s "Valley Girl" popularity...

Those who became teenagers during that period (Like Lady Kelly) and since, seem to suffer from this...

It started out among females, but has now passed over to the male population as well...

It's gotten to the point where it's basically impossible to turn on a news channel featuring otherwise bright and articulate college educated 20 something, or 30 something, or even 40 something show hosts or pundits where this isn't going on as a matter of course...

And of course my own daughter does it too...(I've tried to break her of it by doing it myself in an overly exaggerated way, but while she finds that amusing, it's not having much impact....)

There comes a point where you just have to throw up your hands in surrender...

[MajGenl.Meade]

Oh don't get me started! My grand-daughter is a lovely, articulate 20-something and every other word is "like" and every damn sentence goes uUPP at the end as if all the world is one giant interrogatory. When she was at our house recently with two friends (and two of the respective mothers), I had to either go to the basement or kill myself. I'm still not sure which I chose.

But this f-ing nom, nom is driving me nuts (as the pirate with the wheel in his crotch said).

[Long Run]

But this f-ing nom, nom is driving me nuts (as the pirate with the wheel in his crotch said).

I think it's totes awesome.

[Joe Guy]