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[–] MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago (4 children)

And don’t get me started on people who say ‘ahh’

[–] Joelk111@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I wouldn't even hate it so much if it were spelt better. Ahh reads like the noise the doctor asks you to make. I can't help but read it like that in my head, and my head doesn't like it. I'm not even sure what the phonetically correct spelling would be. Even aaa would be better imo.

[–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

Ahh is a word I use for thinking sounds (ahh, uhm, um) so I keep reading it as that and then I have to reread it. Annoying!

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm not sure what that refers to, and I'm not getting it from the replies.

[–] Joelk111@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (3 children)
[–] aciddev@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 days ago

More like algospeak, there's a lot of adequate but quiet gen-z'ers, believe me they despise it as much as everyone else.

[–] yogurtwrong@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I am 20. I hate algospeak so bad. But "ahh" kinda stuck in my tongue

"ahh" feels like the sound you'd make when you try to say "ass" quickly

I feel like "ass" and "ahh" conveys different feelings so I use them interchangably. But I still cringe a bit because "ahh" originated from algospeak

[–] Joelk111@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

In speaking I don't mind it tbh, I just hate how it's spelled, as I can't help but read it as the noise you make with your mouth open at the doctor, which sounds all kinds of wrong.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Oh, thank you. Is it pronounced like 'A'?

[–] Joelk111@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Pronounced like ass, but without the s sound, instead just extending the a sound.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago

Oh, duh, that makes sense

[–] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 days ago

Personally, they should all just drink a cup of bleach. Not enough to permanently kill them, just enough to send them to the hospital and give them lifelong injuries.

But I'm currently in a bad mood and just want to wish harm on stooped people. Possibly including myself as I in particularly retarded sometimes.

[–] capuccino@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

what is that? what is that "ahh" thing?

[–] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

Search anglospeak. It's that.

Basically if someone's using ahh assuming they are like 14 or just actively retard. Either way you are right.