# Awesome verbal tic! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 10, 2017, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-verbal-tic/784180 "2017-04-10T15:37:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Orville\_mogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/aeb1de/32.png) [@Orville\_mogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orville_mogul)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-verbal-tic/784180/1 "2017-04-10T15:37:35Z")
Figured I would have to share this with Dopers as I am the only guy from my team in the office today, and it would be a one-way ticket to HR if I spoke to one of my female teammates about this. I just got off the phone with a female collaborator from another company who has the most, um, interesting verbal tic I have ever heard. At the end of every sentence or so she lets out a lightly vocalized sigh. At first I thought that it was some form of laughter, except neither she nor I had said anything particularly funny. Then I noticed that it was happening pretty often. Then I noticed it was not so much a laugh as a moan. And it wasn’t a moan of sorrow or frustration either. It was kind of a happy moan. And it sounded kind of familiar. But it wasn’t familiar from the office though. It was from somewhere else. Oh. :smack: Yep, she was punctuating every sentence with a mini-orgasm. And once I got that into my head, I couldn’t listen to anything else she was saying. Needless to say, I have scheduled another call with her tomorrow 😃 ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-verbal-tic/784180/2 "2017-04-10T16:19:48Z")
How do you know she wasn’t actually having mini orgasms? ---
**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-verbal-tic/784180/3 "2017-04-11T13:39:07Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > How do you know she wasn’t actually having mini orgasms? That is a good point. It is possible she isn’t having a verbal tick so much as Persistent Genital Arousal Disorder. ---
**Author:** ![Orville\_mogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/aeb1de/32.png) [@Orville\_mogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orville_mogul)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-verbal-tic/784180/4 "2017-04-11T13:48:18Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > How do you know she wasn’t actually having mini orgasms? I may be long, but I’m not THAT long 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Iggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iggy/32/3364_2.png) [@Iggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggy)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-verbal-tic/784180/5 "2017-04-11T14:42:12Z")
Hate to ruin your mental picture. I emit a similar sigh accompanied by a slight pause while speaking. For me at least it is due to pain. ---
**Author:** ![Fubaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@Fubaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fubaya)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-verbal-tic/784180/6 "2017-04-11T18:17:43Z")
Whoever told you the female orgasm involves a slight sigh was blatantly misleading you. They actually don’t exist. ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-verbal-tic/784180/7 "2017-04-11T18:53:13Z")
> [@Orville\_mogul](#): > > Needless to say, I have scheduled another call with her tomorrow 😃 Please record and share so we can all better understand what’s going on. As an adjunct, I recommend visiting YouTube and searching for “hysterical literature.”