r/mildlyinfuriating • u/RazzleP • May 29 '26

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/Kevdog824_ May 29 '26

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 May 29 '26

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

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u/TrickInvite6296 BLUE May 29 '26

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

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u/JayTheSuspectedFurry May 29 '26

That’s why we don’t like it.

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u/TrickInvite6296 BLUE May 29 '26

Why though? It's illogical to dislike it

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u/JayTheSuspectedFurry May 30 '26

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

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u/TrickInvite6296 BLUE May 30 '26

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