Yamma

As for the 'socio-cultural functionality' of yamma and gooble, like I said earlier, that strikes me as a 'horseless carriage' argument - "I don't see a role for it now, so there's likely no role for it in the future." ❋ Hal Duncan (2007)

So tell me, what is it that makes yamma or gooble impossible? ❋ Hal Duncan (2007)

Similarly, your scenario offers no reason to assume we'll all rush out to replace our wonder with yamma and our horror with gooble. ❋ Hal Duncan (2007)

As for "shared psychology would remain, with bolted-on yamma and gooble as little more than superficial differences" - this seems to presume that emotions are discrete, doesn't it? ❋ Hal Duncan (2007)

Why would we all deconstruct and reconstruct our bodies and/or our psyches so completely as to become crab-monkey-flipper-things feeling crab-monkey-flipper-affects of yamma and gooble? ❋ Hal Duncan (2007)

You can inhibit fear, stimulate joy, and so on, but I don't believe you can replace them with yamma and gooble. ❋ Hal Duncan (2007)

This actually reinforces my point about yamma and gooble. ❋ Hal Duncan (2007)

The shared psychology would remain, with bolted-on yamma and gooble as little more than superficial differences -- like the dorsal arm or eyes in the back of your head. ❋ Hal Duncan (2007)

You could drop horror and wonder and add yamma and gooble as nominative markers, but this would be like dropping azure and adding cerulean, dropping jade and adding emerald. ❋ Hal Duncan (2007)

I'm just saying that odds are some 'yamma or gooble' will likely prove functional, even if others will not. ❋ Hal Duncan (2007)

Even suppose we assume that new technologies create their own function, what function will be so universally imperative as to drive us all to add yamma and gooble, like adding a dorsal arm and a pair of eyes in the back of your head, both additions that would have some use but which don't exactly strike me as The Shape of Things to Come? ❋ Hal Duncan (2007)

Get your gooble and your yamma right here in a two-for-one deal! ❋ Hal Duncan (2007)

What, if any, function (s) might be found for yamma and gooble? ❋ Hal Duncan (2007)

Why should Sally, with her yamma and gooble, be able to relate to Dave, with his freck and guyter, any more than she can relate to us, with our wonder and horror? ❋ Hal Duncan (2007)

Your scenario is one of substitution, however, in which joy and sorrow, anger and fear, disgust and surprise are entirely meaningless terms to a posthuman, since that posthuman has replaced this affective skeleton wholesale with yamma, gooble, et al.. ❋ Hal Duncan (2007)

Blah blah blah yamma yamma yamma har de har har ding ding ding. ❋ Fortune's Stanley Bing (2011)

I've got some of the loveliest scent -- the Yamma-yamma flower from Japan. " ❋ Laura Lee Hope (N/A)

'eye-mah-meh' or 'yamma yamma yamma', you get 'stop worrying and enjoy your life': a message just for you. ❋ Unknown (2009)

your yamma [is stupid] your yamma is so big she [needs] two [toilets] ❋ Cam&phil (2005)

[Your mama] is a yamma. ❋ Casey, Cam, Phil (2005)

I can't see a single [flaw]; [that woman] has got that [yamma yamma]! ❋ Induced Labor (2018)

[Becky] [To josh] to [shut up] and eat this Yamma. ❋ Justin Rivers (2006)

"[YAMMA]!" ❋ Chimpbizkit (2011)

This guy [jaiden] is a [Bawty yamma] talking bout he [bout to pull up] on him, he talks Out his ass to much ❋ Jaiden The Glizzy Guzzler (2020)

[Girl] get [yo] Pee-Yamma ❋ VerticalZulu56 (2019)

Person 1: aye bro [yamma] Person 2: [bro what]? Person 1: I dunno, some dude made the word up and wants to feel included Person 2: damn he must have a [sad life] ❋ Tommy17999 (2021)