@Neil Frein I see. Maybe humans are generalists by nature, not specialists.

@nathan Hello!

Monday

@NeilFein I'm working again

And so I feel up to chatting, heh.

Hi @Nathan.

Hi @KitFox :)

Long time no see.

Yeah

I think I made an error in not coming here while my self esteem was so poor.

The last thing I want to do is write when I feel low ... And second to that is cook. Shame, because those are two of the ways that I end up feeling better. It's like a self exacerbating cycle that I don't like.

But, I just bought a brand new car and I got a brand new job that seems to be working out

As sad as this is, I suspect the car will do the most for my self esteem long erm

Term

@Nathan So what else is new?

Have you been writing?

I mean, now that you are feeling better.

hey people

im having trouble with a simple little sentence

It basically says "He gave a wheezing laugh."

but i hate that sentence, and i can't find a better way to phrase it...

Hmm.

What do you hate about it?

idk

i dont like "giving a laugh"

its a taxi driver, a sort of rotund and very talkative cabbie

if that helps, lol

to form the picture.

He laughed wheezily?

hahaha

nonono

He wheezed from laughter.

LOL

definitely not.

Wheezing wouldn't be a chuckle, snort, or guffaw.

thinks

heres some context:

Snicker maybe.

I give up, I can't italicize it.

Snicker would give it the rolling eyes feel.

I think it would fit.

idk, snicker has a kind of derisive connotation to me

I would snicker if a fat man fell down.

It is derisive.

on some stairs.

yeah, he's not really being derisive

Oh.

So a good-natured chuckle then?

much closer to that, yes

im just trying to bring out the wheeze.

trying to paint a good picture of your average 60-year-old white NYC cab driver who won't shut up

guffaw...

He wheezed, chuckling "Oh, you got the right guy. I got enough opinions to fill a zoo."

Guffaw doesn't fit. You can't talk in a guffaw.

haha

At least, not that many words.

he guffaws, then talks.

:)

OK, but guffawing doesn't really have a wheeze to it.

true

It fits, though.

but it does sound like your older-person-in-bad-health style of laugh

older men guffaw

Myah, I guess so.

I think of teenagers as guffawers.

really?

I dunno.

weird!

complete opposite of my mental connotation

which i can't really justify

His wheezing chuckle made me think he might smoke too much.

@KitFox, I'm just getting my blog set back up

I took it down to do some thinking about what I wanted it to look like, and what I wanted it to feel like. It wasn't really me before... The writing was, but the look and feel wasn't. I have some custom graphics now and I know what I want it to be, and I'm up to doing it.

Guffaw is a dated, tired word, I'm sorry to say. I'd only use it if I were using my Howard Phillip voice.