{"id":642,"date":"2008-02-13T14:51:26","date_gmt":"2008-02-13T19:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=642"},"modified":"2016-07-11T16:49:48","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T20:49:48","slug":"borborygmi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=642","title":{"rendered":"borborygmi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span lang=\"EN-CA\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">Dear Aska!<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Does stomach growling constitute as socially inappropriate?? As, say, passing\u00a0gas? If not, why do I feel embarassed every time old yeller starts going at it?<\/p>\n<p>Yours Forever,<br \/>\nToo-Loud-For-Comfort<span lang=\"EN-CA\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">?<!--more--><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-CA\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">No. If I&#8217;m on a first date and nervous my stomach will start doing all of the talking for me. I guess in a positive light it makes me seem more human than the awesome sex bomb they think they&#8217;re dating. And because I&#8217;m dainty I do get a little embarrassed. But it&#8217;s not like farting. There are a lot of medical reasons for it, but I don&#8217;t want to bore anyone with my new found knowledge on the subject.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-CA\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-CA\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">No, actually, I do. The doctors have a real name for it: Borborygmi: a name actually that comes from Ancient Greek. The word relies on onomatopoeia and actually translates to rumbling. It&#8217;s primarily caused by muscle contractions in the stomach.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-CA\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-CA\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">Oh, on Monday (I don&#8217;t know why I like talking about this so much.), during my exam, my stomach was SO LOUD! It&#8217;s just funny. You&#8217;re just hungry *for the right nutrients* or something. Just think of it as a good convo starter.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Aska! Does stomach growling constitute as socially inappropriate?? As, say, passing\u00a0gas? If not, why do I feel embarassed every time old yeller starts going at it? Yours Forever, Too-Loud-For-Comfort?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,97,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awkwardness","category-health","category-explosivo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}