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Sssttt

Put your upper and lower teeth together, as if you're biting something, but not too close, then blow some air as if you're producing a sound like as if commanding a child to silence, you create an sssttt sound. This is what we do when we call somebody, someone who is an acquaintance. My mother would call us five brothers with this sound even if we were about two/three hundred meters away. She could create that sound. Imagine. That's because her time was so engrossed in calling us, like a hen calling her chicks. But you don't do it to somebody whom you do not know, or to a lady. That is respectful.

Sssttt. That sound is only Filipino. If you are in the other side of the planet and you hear that sound, please know that it is a Filipino producing that sound. Sssttt, it is different from keeping you quite. Sssttt. Be alert! Mama's calling.