What idiot invented the term ''sssssshhhhhhh''???????????! !!

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I f*****g hate being ssssshhhhhhh'd. I hate it. People like my close family never learn that me being ssshhhh'd upsets me, even though I express each time that I hate it.

Who am I kidding, it's not their fault, it's mine. Nobody else gets bothered when people sssshhhh them, only me, so I suppose people will forget and just ssshhhh me then get alarmed by the unnecessary reaction they get from me.

But I can't help the way I feel. Being ssshhhh'd offends me. I know it sounds weird, but it really does.

I just shouted at my dad because he ssshhh'd me, even though I wasn't talking. My mum and her sister was talking, and they didn't know he was trying to listen to something on the telly, and he reached the remote and turned up the volume, and yes, more fool me, I spoke up and said, ''not too loud'' (because I don't like tellies on too loud when we've got company) and he went ''sssssshhhhhhh!! !!'' to ME. I've been a bit emotionally sensitive today, it was just one of those days, and I've been trying hard not to get enraged with anybody, then I suddenly lost it when I unexpectedly got sssshhhhh'd.

For some reason I'd rather be told to shut up or be quiet or hush or whatever, but ssshhhh seems to have a different affect on me.

I understand that. I don't like it either. I don't like the sound of it, the feel of it- I just don't like shushed. Period.

I also hate being shushed as well.

Its quite an impersonal and rude thing to do to someone, I don't know why it isn't considered taboo or out of bounds for most people.

I agree. Being told "ssssshhhhhh" is annoying AF. Makes me want to hit the person that shushes me sometimes, but I know better. I still don't like it, though, because it feels my opinion doesn't matter.

I like shushing people.

It was probably invented by a Homo erectus who had to tell his hunting buddies to quiet it down, so a antelope wouldn't hear them. They needed that antelope for dinner that night.

I usually just tell people to shut up

I've often wondered something similar, Kraftie. I find it interesting that a lot of animals, cats being a good example, seem to use hissing as an alarm or threat sound of some kind - emulating the warnings of a poisonous snake maybe?
It does make me wonder whether "Shhh..." has a similar origin, and also if that is why many of us have an instinctive dislike of the sound.

Very well could be

I don't really care for sssssshhhhhh, but I've used it at times to get people to stop speaking so loudly.

I usually don't get such a nice reaction to that, so I usually attempt to use calming words instead.

When somebody is screaming in my ear, though, I can't help trying to find a way to stop that person from doing that.

I don't like that sound at all. I think it's because I'm sensitive to having a class I'm in be told to be quiet. But in any context, it makes me cringe.

I don't like it either, but I do have a tendency to talk rather loud sometimes.

My Fiance just reminds me "Inside Voice", if I am speaking too loud.

This is not without its annoyance either, but is far less annoying than SHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
and in reality I am talking too loud and without intervention I will get louder, so I can hardly blame her for pointing it out and at least she took into account how much I don't like being SHHHHHHHHH'd

I don't mind "ssshhh" if it is spoken quickly. I occasionally use it for my kids, but more often I use the word "hush." Which for some reason doesn't bother me although the "sh" sound is still there.

What drives me absolutely bonkers, so that I usually walk out of earshot, is a mother "ssshhhh-ing" a baby. As in, baby is fussy, mom holds or rocks it continually going "sssshhhh" for the duration of the fussing. The sound of "ssshhh" continually for an extended period of time makes my skin crawl.

It was invented by Satan himslf when he was in the form of a snake.