Put simply, “Inner monologue”, also one of the early phonemic pictures, deals with the subject of ‘talking to oneself silently’. Announcements to oneself are nothing unusual, it does not necessarily have to be a dialog. The German term for announcements contains the character sequence ‘laut’, which—understood as a noun—represents the linguistic designation for a sound (‘phoneme’). As an adjective, however, ‘laut’ is to be understood as ‘loud’, a nice contradiction in the context of laudless talking to oneself.

To make things easier for those who are unfamiliar with the international phonetic alphabet or who may not know it at all, here is the re-transformation into the source language. In the case of phonemic pictures whose source language is not English, a translation into English is also carried out.