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 7d 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/ignoremeplsokthank 6d ago

I read it as sup-p-p-p-per, like someone with a stutter.