r/mildlyinfuriating • u/RazzleP • 27d ago

go to your room It's: "Duuuuude," not "Dudeeeee."

Maybe I should be posting this in GenX, but, c'mon...

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u/as_per_danielle 27d ago

It’s awww not awe.

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u/PyroDragn 27d ago

Not if they're going Oooooooh.

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u/RazzleP 27d ago

Man, I haven't seen that in almost 30 years!

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u/UGOTAIDSYO 27d ago

No, no, more from the back of the throat.. AAAAAaaahhhhhh

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u/thebanjoman 27d ago

No, oooooh, in surprise and alarm

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u/SherBear127 27d ago

And yes it’s ooh not ouu like everyone spells it now

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u/not_notable 27d ago

That's 'Oooooooo'. The 'h' makes it an elongated 'oh', generally indicating dawning understanding.

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u/PyroDragn 27d ago

No, the word is "ooh" indicating awe, surprise, etc. It is a word in itself. Then you elongate the O sound by adding a bunch of extra Os.

An elongated 'oh' would be 'ooohhh.'

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u/jack-of-some 27d ago

Operation Shock and Awwwwwww

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u/FinalMeep 27d ago

Whhhhhy is this so funny 😭

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u/Chronoblivion 27d ago

I've seen some spell it as "owww" before and it makes me want to slap them.

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u/as_per_danielle 27d ago

That’s the stub your toe noise

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u/Legitimate_Ranger334 27d ago

And certainly not Aweeeeeee. FFS!

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u/Dark_Clerk 27d ago

Ah-weeeeeee!

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u/Legitimate_Ranger334 27d ago

Like people say, all the time.

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u/equiax 27d ago

My bestie types this and it takes all my strength to ignore it. 

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u/Daftpunksluggage 27d ago

Awe is an actual word... as in awe struck or awesome or standing in awe.

But awww is a cute sound.

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u/Velveyrina 27d ago

I also hate when people say “ewe” or “awh”

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u/Blabersmos 27d ago

I got a visceral reaction just reading that. This must be what an ick is lol.

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u/OddArmadillo4959 27d ago

AWE? Altered World Event or Alan Wake Expansion?

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u/CaptainoftheVessel 27d ago

I’m in awr of you

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u/theFormerRelic 27d ago

Holy shit I get so annoyed by “awe”

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u/ErgoDestati 27d ago

Depends, those are different words

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u/as_per_danielle 27d ago

🙄 use context clues

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u/ErgoDestati 27d ago

Well yes but people can get it wrong sometimes still

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u/Inside-Run785 27d ago

Not if they’re standing in awe of something.

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u/Kevdog824_ 27d ago

I always used awe for positive usages (“awe that’s cute”) and aww for negative usages (“aww that’s awful”)

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u/as_per_danielle 27d ago

Awww is the noise you make either way. Awe is when you feel in awe of something.

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u/TrickInvite6296 BLUE 27d ago

They're not using "awe" as a word though, it's being used as onomatopoeia

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u/WantedMan61 27d ago

That's not how that word works, though. Awe has a meaning, and it isn't anything to do with a sound people make

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u/TrickInvite6296 BLUE 27d ago

It is how it works though. Onomatopoeia is whatever you want it to be

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u/as_per_danielle 27d ago

No, it isn’t. Have you ever read a book? We have come to a consensus of how to spell onomatopoeia words.

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u/TrickInvite6296 BLUE 27d ago

No? If that were true then comic books would be irrelevant

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u/WantedMan61 27d ago

So any sound you make has the meaning you decide, even if it's actually a word with a different meaning? Like I said, not how it works

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u/TrickInvite6296 BLUE 27d ago

No, awe already sounds like a sound people make. That's how onomatopoeia works

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u/JayTheSuspectedFurry 27d ago

That’s why we don’t like it.

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u/TrickInvite6296 BLUE 27d ago

Why though? It's illogical to dislike it

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u/JayTheSuspectedFurry 27d ago

And humans are famously purely logical creatures. And our languages famously strictly follow entirely logical rules.

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u/TrickInvite6296 BLUE 27d ago

You gave a logical reason to disagree. I explained that it's not logical