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AWES BRO!

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Option	Votes
badical	10
awes	5
gnarly	3
wicked	3
awess	2

― nickalicious, Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:22 (eighteen years ago)

totes deck

― nabisco, Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:32 (eighteen years ago)

sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet

― David R., Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:34 (eighteen years ago)

Badical was a close runner-up.

― Laurel, Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:37 (eighteen years ago)

bitchin'

― kenan, Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:38 (eighteen years ago)

Is it just me or has "awes" totally just come to full power in the past week or so? Not just on ilx, but on the internet and IRL? I love saying it, it implies I'm so excited by something that "awesome" would just be too formal or overwraught.

― nickalicious, Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:39 (eighteen years ago)

the awes backlash has already started, tho

― kenan, Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:42 (eighteen years ago)

either Sweet or Far Out, depending on the day

― kingfish, Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:44 (eighteen years ago)

cool.

― kenan, Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:44 (eighteen years ago)

"Die Geschichte von dem wilden Jäger" (The Story of the Wild Huntsman) is the only story not primarily focused on children. In it, a rabbit steals a hunter's rifle and eyeglasses and begins to hunt the hunter. In the ensuing chaos the rabbit's child is burned by hot coffee.

― nabisco, Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:49 (eighteen years ago)

Now see if we could change our screennames I would've swooped down on "the awse backlash" immediately.

― nickalicious, Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:49 (eighteen years ago)

aw
(es)

― rrrobyn, Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:50 (eighteen years ago)

i'm going to reduce my vocabulary to vowels

― rrrobyn, Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:51 (eighteen years ago)

i oaa oi o e oey

― rrrobyn, Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:51 (eighteen years ago)

uuuuuuu!

― David R., Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:53 (eighteen years ago)

ooooo

― kenan, Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:53 (eighteen years ago)

aw eh eye uh oo eh uh oh eh

― nabisco, Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:53 (eighteen years ago)

i o!

― rrrobyn, Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:53 (eighteen years ago)

(aw eh = "robyn")

― nabisco, Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:54 (eighteen years ago)

! :)

― rrrobyn, Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:56 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.ilxor.com:8080/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=40&threadid=52459

― awse, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:09 (eighteen years ago)

awes?

― awse, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:10 (eighteen years ago)

have you guys ever thought about how weird it is that some vowel sounds are actually made by shifting between two other unrelated vowel sounds

― bernard snowy, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:11 (eighteen years ago)

like how ah-ay or ah-ee become "I"

― bernard snowy, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:11 (eighteen years ago)

no not ah-ay, just ah-ee. sorry. ay is actually eh-ee

― bernard snowy, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:12 (eighteen years ago)

eh?

― rrrobyn, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:14 (eighteen years ago)

― nickalicious, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:15 (eighteen years ago)

― rrrobyn, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:16 (eighteen years ago)

I dunno. it's something I never really noticed until I was trying to teach myself to throat-sing and shifting between different vowel sounds to try and find the sweet spots.

― bernard snowy, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:18 (eighteen years ago)

Bernard you should do a club track called "Dip Thongs."

― nabisco, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:24 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/estuary/myfairlady_200x155.jpg

― kenan, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:30 (eighteen years ago)

P.S. This reminds me of one of the weirdest things I have seen on the web, which is this guy who takes a David Foster Wallace essay to task for writing...

...ask 's'up, s'goin on,' pronouncing on with that NYCish oo-o diphthong that Young Urban Black English deploys for a standard o[quote]

And then he says:

[quote]I have lived in NYC for decades and have never heard a Young Urban Black, or anyone else, pronounce "on" in such a way.

Which OMG has he never heard Flavor Flav say "yeah bo-ee" either??

― nabisco, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:30 (eighteen years ago)

i am using all letters again, and numbers

throat singing is totally neat. regular singing, also neat. and yeah, it really makes you aware of all the vowel sounds and shifts!

that's weird, nabiscov, but is it really one of the weirdest things you've seen on the web? really?

― rrrobyn, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:57 (eighteen years ago)

Well, this was in the context of a massive point-by-point "demolition" of DFW's grammar & usage article by a linguist. So it's like careful argument, careful argument, careful argument, "this is ridiculous, there is no such animal as a 'hen.'"

― nabisco, Friday, 2 March 2007 01:53 (eighteen years ago)

link

― haitch, Friday, 2 March 2007 02:04 (eighteen years ago)

I'm sticking with "oh, brother"

― Maria :D, Friday, 2 March 2007 02:04 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.slate.com/id/2159929/

― Lostandfound, Friday, 2 March 2007 02:12 (eighteen years ago)

haha ok i see now, n
i have been in a weird mood all day and ribbing pretty much everyone. might as well not stop now: boy do i find articles like that slate one boring. i would probably get through three paragraphs of the one you mention on dfw, n, and toss it away. pos stomp on it too.

― rrrobyn, Friday, 2 March 2007 02:23 (eighteen years ago)

I lurv articles about interjections and speech. I R a linguist.

― Maria :D, Friday, 2 March 2007 02:29 (eighteen years ago)

The DFW is great and impassioned, though -- not like that fusty Bill Safire stuff.

― nabisco, Friday, 2 March 2007 02:45 (eighteen years ago)

impassioned i can get with
(i'm interested in the subject matter but there's a reason i'm not a linguist!)

― rrrobyn, Friday, 2 March 2007 02:51 (eighteen years ago)

awose

― jel --, Friday, 2 March 2007 20:30 (eighteen years ago)

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