The fewer words left that mean anything the better
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Saturday, 27 July 2019 22:47 (five years ago) link
yea I hate "woof."
― billstevejim, Saturday, 27 July 2019 22:57 (five years ago) link
"woof" and "oof"
Spanish speakers have been saying "¡Uf!" for decades if not since time immemorial
― Josefa, Saturday, 27 July 2019 23:19 (five years ago) link
cf “uff da”
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Saturday, 27 July 2019 23:21 (five years ago) link
every time a fucking dog says "woof" I cringe at their lack of originality
― akm, Sunday, 28 July 2019 00:54 (five years ago) link
what the fuck @ “woof” and “oof”, I’m going to need more details
― brimstead, Sunday, 28 July 2019 01:12 (five years ago) link
idk i've only heard a couple people use it and it's annoying.
A reaction to another person describing an unpleasant situation. Similar usage to "ugh"
― billstevejim, Sunday, 28 July 2019 02:33 (five years ago) link
It’s a simple way to express sympathy, we could use more of those imo Bring on the oof
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Sunday, 28 July 2019 04:33 (five years ago) link
Ah ok, it’s like when people return from a long journey and say “oof” after sinking into an armchair... sometimes followed by “ooh my dogs are barking” or something
― brimstead, Sunday, 28 July 2019 04:46 (five years ago) link
woof is different iirc
― phil neville jacket (darraghmac), Sunday, 28 July 2019 08:29 (five years ago) link
"yeah so" is there some kind of audio filter I can apply to NPR that will remove these two words which is apparently how everyone now starts their sentences?
― lefal junglist platton (wtev), Sunday, 28 July 2019 10:07 (five years ago) link
It’s a simple way to express sympathy, we could use more of those imoBring on the oof
Up on the Oof
― Arthur Lowe & Love (Tom D.), Sunday, 28 July 2019 11:47 (five years ago) link
oof of today
― phil neville jacket (darraghmac), Sunday, 28 July 2019 12:04 (five years ago) link
i use woof and oof regularly and refuse to stop
― american bradass (BradNelson), Sunday, 28 July 2019 12:31 (five years ago) link
Even though I haven't lived in Scotland for almost 20 years I still say 'och' [ɒx], it's so much more expressive than 'oh', which sounds feeble in comparison. I also say 'aye' all the time and 'the noo' occasionally ... but not all together.
― Arthur Lowe & Love (Tom D.), Sunday, 28 July 2019 13:16 (five years ago) link
och aye the noof
― mark s, Sunday, 28 July 2019 14:09 (five years ago) link
och aye the neuf, the French influence on Scots can never be overestimated.
― Arthur Lowe & Love (Tom D.), Sunday, 28 July 2019 14:11 (five years ago) link
speaking of NPR, some of the younger more smartypants intellectuals do this thing where they say "right" after each of their piercing observations, even if they are quite specialised observations you could have never known before, much less agreed with. so you are like yes duh of course mr expando-brain (it is always mr) i probably knew that already, right. you are right! either that or it's something speculative and subjective they've just said in which case it's relatively more straightforward micro-hustling you into agreement. either way CUT IT OUT
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 28 July 2019 14:22 (five years ago) link
Indeed…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italo-Celtic
xp
― pomenitul, Sunday, 28 July 2019 14:26 (five years ago) link
ooft
― 2019OK plus bennu (wins), Sunday, 28 July 2019 14:34 (five years ago) link
Ooftish?
― pomenitul, Sunday, 28 July 2019 14:36 (five years ago) link
(xxp) Not really, more Norman French and the Auld Alliance et al. Scots is not Celtic after all!
― Arthur Lowe & Love (Tom D.), Sunday, 28 July 2019 14:37 (five years ago) link
I was being pedantically facetious.
But yeah, sorry, I tend to get Lowland Scots and Scots Gaelic mixed up.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 28 July 2019 14:41 (five years ago) link
Talking of Lowland Scots, Oos is one of may favourite words (plural of Oo).
― Arthur Lowe & Love (Tom D.), Sunday, 28 July 2019 14:50 (five years ago) link
... pron. oose, not ooze.
― Arthur Lowe & Love (Tom D.), Sunday, 28 July 2019 14:51 (five years ago) link
(it is always mr) Not always a man! I hear people of all sorts doing the “right” at the end of a sentence. I’ve taken to slotting it into a category of semantically insignificant time-buyers, gives a pause to remember yr next point. Seems to be prevalent among people who have practiced giving long answers to the questions they’re asked. It does seem to be highly contagious.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Sunday, 28 July 2019 15:12 (five years ago) link
the worst sentence-filler is "obviously". some people pepper their sentences with that multiple times over.
― kinder, Sunday, 28 July 2019 17:00 (five years ago) link
oof and its metropolotan-nyc variant OOFAH are timeless and satisfying alternatives to "oh boy" or "good grief" etc.
I don't know how one would use "woof" though?
― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 28 July 2019 17:13 (five years ago) link
I mean "oof" isn't even a word so much as a spontanous, gutteral exclamation
― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 28 July 2019 17:14 (five years ago) link
I assume flappy finds the sympathetic "oof" or its near-synonym "woof" to be bad in typed communication, where it carries a faux spontaneity. I sort of sympathize but still I see how it's useful.
― mick signals, Sunday, 28 July 2019 17:30 (five years ago) link
I guess I don't hate "woof," but it's something I hear a lot that I don't want to say.
― billstevejim, Sunday, 28 July 2019 17:37 (five years ago) link
I guess american vernacular english has a shortage of good ways to express sympathy in a range of registers. You can sound lite, or you can sound somber, not enough else.
― mick signals, Sunday, 28 July 2019 18:00 (five years ago) link
oof and its metropolotan-nyc variant OOFAH are timeless and satisfying alternatives to "oh boy" or "good grief" etc.I don't know how one would use "woof" though?
same usage
― billstevejim, Sunday, 28 July 2019 18:02 (five years ago) link
Yes the ways to express sympathy without detail or saying “sorry” are very few. Oof is casual sorry-lite.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Sunday, 28 July 2019 18:44 (five years ago) link
woof different usage, can be approving for a start
― phil neville jacket (darraghmac), Sunday, 28 July 2019 22:00 (five years ago) link
i think the first person i heard say it was James Richardson, in football weekly, and he always seemed to say it at just the right time. an exclamation of surprise but variable as per dmac - can be admiring, can be damning. a bit like ' oh la la ' actually
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 29 July 2019 02:57 (five years ago) link
it's happening again
https://i.imgur.com/exV8GZZ.png
― I don't get wet because I am tall and thin and I am afraid of people (Eliza D.), Friday, 2 August 2019 12:27 (five years ago) link
keep it in the cigar box, people!
― ☮ (peace, man), Friday, 2 August 2019 13:27 (five years ago) link
gear's roommate to thread
― Criss Angel Raw: The Mindfreak Unplugged (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 2 August 2019 13:29 (five years ago) link
guessing that lady learned in English in India, where that usage of "cum" is more common than it is here in the US (for obvious reasons)
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Friday, 2 August 2019 13:51 (five years ago) link
not annoyed but v bemused at the emergence of "slapper" (in the US) to denote a song that slaps
― rob, Friday, 2 August 2019 15:56 (five years ago) link
Knee-slapper.
― pomenitul, Friday, 2 August 2019 16:00 (five years ago) link
this term has been around for over 20 years
― Οὖτις, Friday, 2 August 2019 16:01 (five years ago) link
Was blissfully unaware of its British & Irish meaning.
― pomenitul, Friday, 2 August 2019 16:06 (five years ago) link
ok some searching reveals you're right Outic, though it seems to have migrated from (bay area?) rap usage to more general application--I encountered it twice today. And if you are aware of the other meaning, this sub-headline is a little startling: https://www.thefader.com/2019/08/01/rosalia-j-balvin-con-altura-song-of-the-summer-el-guincho-frank-dukes
― rob, Friday, 2 August 2019 16:09 (five years ago) link
― ☮ (peace, man), Friday, August 2, 2019 6:27 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
😭
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Friday, 2 August 2019 16:20 (five years ago) link
― 2019OK plus bennu (wins), Friday, 2 August 2019 16:32 (five years ago) link
Also when ppl innocently fall into that trap it belongs in “words, usages and phrases that delight the shit out of you” obv
― 2019OK plus bennu (wins), Friday, 2 August 2019 16:35 (five years ago) link
English place names are a source of infinite delight:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorlton-cum-Hardy
― pomenitul, Friday, 2 August 2019 16:36 (five years ago) link
in the UK you'd just call this a spunk bed
― akm, Friday, 2 August 2019 19:08 (five years ago) link