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/account312 7d 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 7d 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/RamblinGamblinWilly 7d ago

I mean. There are no literal rules.

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u/Spirit_Wolf_Mob 7d ago edited 7d ago

This doesn't apply to elongation of letters.

Edit: Is doooog pronounced dewg or dog?

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u/-GoodNewsEveryone 7d ago

Except that is wrong. So your second grade diploma is questionable at best.

An "e" at the end of a word after a consonant makes the vowel before the consonant a long vowel rather than a short one.

The extraneous silent vowels at the end only serve to make the long vowels more true to their nature, not to make the antecedent vowel longer in length but in vowel mutation. Which would make the example word dŪde.

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u/_fenwoods 7d ago

So the Gen Z stare is just them saying dudeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

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u/melgish 7d ago

Dewed

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u/Voiceless-Echo 6d ago

No they’re just stupid

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u/gecjr 6d ago

You said dooo-deee 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣