This presentation foregrounds linguistic orality and creativity on the one hand, and linguistic aurality and careful active listening on the other, as two of the most important and fulfilling aspects of language which have been largely ignored in the Northern Linguistics of the colonial, neocolonial and post-colonial eras. Using examples from what can be called the verbal gestures of
the ‘human soundscapes’ and the caller-response genres of varieties of the named languages English and English lexifier Creole spoken in the Afro-Atlantic in general and the Caribbean island of Tobago in particular, I urge linguists and educators to pay more attention, not only to the more creative, improvisational, spontaneous and musical elements of linguistic performance such as intonation, verbal gestures, and ideophones, but also to the role of the listener and the audience in the agentive and unpredictable co-creation of meaning and performance in truly hospitable dialog with the speaker. These are the linguistic practices that are in many cases the ones that we as humans appreciate and derive the most fulfillment from, but they are also the aspects of language which are in many cases the ones that Northern  Linguistic Science and its theoretical dogmas trivialize, ignore, or even erase from ‘serious’ consideration.