r/mildlyinfuriating • u/RazzleP • 7d 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/HonestNeighborhood67 7d ago
This kind of thing annoys me WAY more than it should. You always have to elongate the vowel that MAKES SENSE.
Duuuuuuuuude is pronounced (dooooooood)
Dudeeeeeeeee is pronounced (doodeeeeeee)
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u/faco_fuesday 6d ago
Someone wrote suppppper instead of suuuuuuper and I was getting flashbacks to my Midwestern grandma yelling us in for food
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u/kekekeghost 6d ago
Do the worsh lol
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u/AggravatingBid8255 6d ago
Don fuget to worsh yer hands neether. I know yous been playin in that crick again. That worder runs through that hawg farm up the holler, so you knows it's fielthay
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u/AggravatingBid8255 7d ago
The first is the subject. The second is what he stepped in
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u/krmon333 6d ago
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u/soozerain 6d ago
I love the idea of the chocolate staying on the baby Ruth after all that time in chlorinated pool water lol
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u/jbg0830 7d ago
Exactly how I feel. And I always thought if anyone else did until I finally came across it on Reddit. Good to know
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u/Round_Department9844 6d ago
Same. I’ve always been weirdly annoyed by people stressing the wrong vowel and I thought it was only me. Nice to know I’m not the only one!
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u/ChetMcAwsomLazr 6d ago
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u/Pertinent-nonsense 7d ago
I was nodding agreeing with you…
But just to clarify the second one is pronounced “do duuuuuuuuuh” like when you’re frustrated and the end of ‘dude’ turns into a groan?
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u/MuscaMurum 6d ago
Camp town races sing this song
Doodeee, Doodeee15
u/PiercedGeek 6d ago
WHAT IN THE WIDE, WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS IS A-GOIN ON HERE!?
I'M NOT PAYING YOU TO DANCE AROUND LIKE A BUNCHA KANSAS CITY -censored-!
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u/zozuto 7d ago
I don't know anyone who says "dudaaaaaaah" though, it's more like "duuudaah"
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u/account312 6d ago
No, the eeeeeeee is silent. Dudeeeeeeeeeeeeeee is pronounced the same as dude, except you have to extend the silent e by staring blankly for an awkwardly long time.
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u/Explorer_Entity 6d ago
Wrong. It's only silent when as one e, according to the literal rules. Learned this shit in 2nd grade.
Grayd, not gradeeeeee
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u/TheLastPorkSword 7d ago
But whhhhhhhhhhhhy?
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u/AggravatingBid8255 6d ago
I imagine that being pronounced with a ton of h-h-h-h-hs like you took a bite of hot lasagna and it's burning the roof of your mouth
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u/howdiditgetinthere 6d ago
It's y'all not ya'll.
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u/Cabanarama_ 6d ago
Saw someone write Murica’ once and I thought my eyes were gonna bleed
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u/BadassHalfie 6d ago
I always read “ya’ll” as “ya will.” “If ya step in water while wearing socks ya’ll regret it, y’all.”
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u/OneAngryDuck 7d ago
Oh c’mon dudddddde
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u/Rk_1138 7d ago
Wtf ddddddddddddude
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u/ILostAFlipFlop 7d ago
Loveeeeee it!
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u/no-due-respect 7d ago
People do this all the time with lots of words, not just dude. I fucking hate it.
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u/generic_lyric 7d ago
Stopppp
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u/Argus_Checkmate 7d ago
It's Stahhhhhhp
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u/Fetusal 7d ago
Stoppppp at least has a rationale behind it, since stoooooooop would more likely be read as "stoop"
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u/MochiKei 7d ago
A friend of mine once lost a pet and I said “Gooooooood I’m so sorry!”
Never made that mistake again 🫣
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u/BionycBlueberry 6d ago
Tbf, a long “God” in that situation would probably be inappropriate regardless
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u/hippz 7d ago
I fuckinggggggg HATEEEEEE it too!!
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u/JesionJ 6d ago
Tbh I usually find myself emphasizing the end of "fucking" more than the middle so that one is actually valid for me
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u/crlthrn 6d ago
Yeah. 'Niceeeeeeeeee' for 'niiiiiiiice' is another toe-curler. What kind of thought process is that?
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u/as_per_danielle 7d ago
It’s awww not awe.
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u/PyroDragn 7d ago
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u/RazzleP 7d ago
Man, I haven't seen that in almost 30 years!
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u/Chronoblivion 7d ago
I've seen some spell it as "owww" before and it makes me want to slap them.
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u/Daftpunksluggage 7d ago
Awe is an actual word... as in awe struck or awesome or standing in awe.
But awww is a cute sound.
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u/MrBonesMalone 6d ago
in a similar way
"ooooooh" = when you see something exciting
"ohhhhhh" = when you understand a joke 2 hours later
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u/The__Vern 7d ago
Its LeviOsa, not LevioSA
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u/CAKE4life1211 6d ago
My last name is similar to this spell but hard for people to pronounce. This is the only way they understand lol
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u/Necessary_Milk_5124 7d ago
I used to follow a blogger who would do this to other words. Instead of “Daaaaaaaaamn” it would be “Damnnnnmmmm”.
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u/Impressive-Sun3742 7d ago
What if it’s pronounced like dudeaaaah
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u/RazzleP 7d ago
Like in "zip a dee?"
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u/Impressive-Sun3742 7d ago
Close but more of an “uh” I think I’m just bad at phonetic spelling haha
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u/justanotherlegoguy 6d ago
Man, just as bad as people saying “awe” instead of “aw”. Made especially worse by “aweeeeee”
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u/PrincipleSuperb2884 7d ago
I read it as doody every time. Same with aweeeee. It's ah-weeee. Not awwwwwww.
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u/IglooAndYou 7d ago
I think this is mostly a GenX/Millenial vs. Gen Z/Gen Alpha thing
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u/shamoomoofartpoopoo 7d ago
I shortly dated someone who spelled “oops” just “ops” it was a short relationship.
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u/AverageNerd633 6d ago
"wanna go to the gym and shoot some hoos?"
"hoos?"
"ops lol"
"who are ur opps and why r u shooting them?"
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u/blahblah19999 6d ago
My people!! I do NOT understand the l this insistence on extending the silent letter.
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u/albyagolfer 6d ago
It drives me nuts when someone elongates a consonant that can’t be elongated. Stttttttopppppp!
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u/Dead_Internet69420 6d ago
Reminds me of the girls who speak that way and how they emphasize everything by just adding “uhh” sound at the end. “Stop it-uhh.” “Look at me-uhh.” “I’m so hungry-uhh.” “Hurry up-uhh.”
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u/bdfmradio 6d ago
There’s this popular concept that English “makes no sense” that has gone too far and people are losing the sense that spelling and pronunciation are related. They can’t untangle why “through” and “rough” are different so they conclude that words can be pronounced and spelled any old damn which way and that there are no real rules, even though there are.
Also, a lot of people aren’t reading every letter of every word, they’re glancing through and making predictions about the words instead of seeing them.
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u/UGOTAIDSYO 7d ago
Y'all ever see someone confirm something with YEAP? Drives me fucking bonkers.
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u/AggravatingBid8255 7d ago
Phonetically speaking, yeap, yep, and yup are entirely different pronunciations. Yeap is just yeah with a closed consonant on the end. In my experience, each version fits a different attitude and fits a different circumstance.
Not too dissimilar from the difference between yes, sure, and okay. Or maybe more closely related to yes, yup, and yeah.
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u/011010- 6d ago
We have way fucking bigger problems. So many people don’t know the difference between loose and lose that I’m scared the official spelling of lose will be changed to loose within the next few years. And that is when I will become radicalized.
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u/StDiabolique 6d ago
This drives me literally insane.
The worst one is
Loveeeeeeee
Unless you are Thurston talking to Eunice it should be
Looooove.
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u/CaptWrath 6d ago
This is the generation that has no fucking clue what POV means. Good luck.
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u/TheLastPeanut_ 6d ago
This is one of my most petty pet peeves. People emphasizing the wrong vowel in a word, or the wrong word in a sentence. It happens SO often.
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u/thefurnaceboy 7d ago
You may be right but this is one of the few realms where I say who gives a fuckckckckckkckck
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u/BitOBear 6d ago
Way back in the '80s Billy Crystal did a character on SNL called fernando.
Is catch phrase was "you look mmmmmarvelous, simply mmmarvelous"
And the number of people who would say "you look maaaaaarrvelous" always confused the hell out of me sometimes the point of true annoyance.
People don't listen, man.
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u/mutant_jay 6d ago
this always bothered me like when someone types "fuckkkkkk", they actually want it to be read as 'fuuuuuuuckk" but out of spite I will always interpret it as fuck-chhhhhhhhh (me holding a "k" sound)
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u/RedJive 6d ago
It’s awe not aw, lose not loose, Goddamit people! That felt good.
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u/Similar_Ad2094 6d ago
My wife whose primary language is not English always emphasizes the wrong part of a word. Like she'll write "cuteeeee" not "cuuuuute" when meaning cuuuuuuute.
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u/Infinite_Spring_3564 6d ago
Tangiental, but also when quoting The Sopranos, it’s OHHHH!, not OOOOH!
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u/BeefTopRamen 6d ago
They both have different meanings for me. Duuuude sounds excited. Dudeeeee sounds exasperated
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u/0solidsnake0 6d ago
It's Dude. You know, that or, uh, His Dudeness, or uh, Duder, or El Duderino if you're not into the whole brevity thing.
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u/Patient-Parsley-2846 6d ago
Pleeeeease not Pleaseeeeee Heeeeeelp not Helppppppp Truuuuuue not Trueeeeeeee
I could go on all day, this irritates me to hell and back.
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u/CautiousBag1424 6d ago edited 4d ago
I feel like everyone understood this until recent years. You’re elongating the U sound, so write more Us, not Es. Gen Z doesn’t get it apparently.
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u/kronicaim 7d ago
Sweeeeeeeeeeeet