https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backchannel_(linguistics)
“I acknowledge that I could interject my own thoughts here, but choose not to. Please continue with that topic, I am interested.”
Of course, doesn’t work as well in online forums.
Yikes.
The way yanks use bro or bruh is like glass in my ear. Its so boorish and stupid sounding.
Sadly my 8 year old son has brought the term bruh home from school. I ask him not to use it but he does anyway.
The trick is to use it ALL. THE. TIME.
“Hey, bruh, good day at school? Brrrah brrrah 67 skibidi its your turn to clean the toilet.”
Thankfully 67 was squashed fast. Banned in the house, even his friends have stopped doing it here.
Oof acknowledges someone’s feelings, and bruh expresses empathy. These sentiments are important and often overlooked. You don’t have to always launch into your own story. Simply acknowledging and empathizing is a powerful way to build social bonds.
Also brevity is the soul of wit, so oof and bruh might qualify as the greatest things anyone has ever said in history.
nice to see a reasonable take on this
Bruh
right??
No doubt
Oof
Yes, not every talk is a conversation! Maybe I just want to vent and not to hear.
In an in person conversation, that’s definitely true. Not so much online though.
Does bruh express empathy? I’ve always read bruh as “bruh what are you doing” in a lot of contexts. But I can’t really say it’s something I use much.
Context is key. It can express empathy, or disappointment, or awe.
Context is always key.
I think it depends on how you pronounce it and context. I’m used to hearing a shorter bruh with a look attached to it as a question for “what are you doing?” vs a longer bruh like “bruuuuuuh” as empathizing like “that’s rough”.
Ding ding ding!
snick
“Oh shit! Sorry pall!”
Wat
Showing empathy is a valuable contribution.
Okay, but if someone does a little “gasp of surprise” at nearly every piece of information/news during a conversation, is it then socially allowed to throw them out of the nearest window?
No.
Not only that, but acknowledging you heard the one speaking in a quick, unobstrusive, uninterrupting way.
I probably didn’t want to have the conversation in the first place, now you want me to contribute to it too?
Big oof
bruh
Oof
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Me when the next generation comes up with slang and I don’t like it:
I bring you: broof
contributes confusion to the conversation
Shortened form of brohoof
Which in turn was a nickname for Ooferson Bruholomew.
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Boof: To abuse any licit or illicit substance via insertion into one’s rectum.
Broof: To abuse any licit or illicit substance via insertion into your bro’s rectum.
Isn’t that when Kavanaugh sticks a beer bong up his ass?
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Sort of the sound of a confused dog
Oouh!
Ok, boomer
In my college Sociology class, my professor ran us through a couple situations, then ran them back for us. Gender-wise, women tended to make small interjections, nod their heads, etc, as the conversation went among, to indicate that they were listening. Which apparently leads into two “classic” complaints between M/F partners.
Men tended to think that women were “always changing their minds”, because the men interpreted the women’s nods and interjections as agreement instead of “I’m listening to you”.
And women tended to think that men “weren’t listening to them” because men never provided this feedback.
Gender-wise, women tended to make small interjections, nod their heads, etc, as the conversation went among, to indicate that they were listening
Wait this isn’t something everyone does?
