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
For sure
Oof
Yes, not every talk is a conversation! Maybe I just want to vent and not to hear.
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.
“Bruh… sorry for your loss”
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”.
In an in person conversation, that’s definitely true. Not so much online though.
bruh
Oof
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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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Is that a brony thing?
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!
Me when the next generation comes up with slang and I don’t like it:
Showing empathy is a valuable contribution.
Not only that, but acknowledging you heard the one speaking in a quick, unobstrusive, uninterrupting way.
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.
Me being equally useless with “oof bruh”.
Equally useless? More like twice as useless, you mean!
Teach me your ways, master
That’s easy. But you had to have been dropped on your head when you were a baby
My friends mom dropped plates on his head when he was kid. Does that count?
Close enough. Now your friend ought to be pretty useless.
You just reinvented the midwestern “uff da”. It sounds almost the same and can be used the same way.
this brightened my day.
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.
Ok, boomer
That’s crazy, wow
Big oof
Bruh
Ugh
Yikes.
Wow
tja…
You called?
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