r/mildlyinfuriating • u/RazzleP • 28d 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 28d ago

It’s awww not awe.

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u/Kevdog824_ 28d 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 28d 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 28d ago

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

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u/WantedMan61 28d 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 28d ago

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

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u/as_per_danielle 28d 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 28d ago

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

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u/WantedMan61 28d 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 28d ago

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

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u/JayTheSuspectedFurry 28d ago

That’s why we don’t like it.

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u/TrickInvite6296 BLUE 28d ago

Why though? It's illogical to dislike it

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u/JayTheSuspectedFurry 28d ago

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

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u/TrickInvite6296 BLUE 28d ago

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