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A linguistic dissection of 7 annoying teenage sounds

theweek.com — he next time you find yourself wondering about the highest use of linguistics, or enduring the insulting grunts and groans of petulant adolescents and wondering how such noises could even be described, bring the two worlds together. Clearly, linguistics exists just so we can give a technical description of those hard-to-spell sounds that erupt from callow youths.
Brilliant linguistic dissection of 7 annoying teenage sounds: theweek.com/article/index/… - doesn't account for the tongue pushed into lower lip