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.
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".
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?
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.
80 Comments
SurfinBird@lemmy.ca · 173 pts · 157d
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.
texture@lemmy.world · 56 pts · 157d
nice to see a reasonable take on this
CluckN@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 157d
Bruh
texture@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 157d
right??
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · 2 pts · 156d
No doubt
Agent641@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 155d
For sure
ulterno@programming.dev · 1 pts · 157d
Oof
MissJinx@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 157d
Yes, not every talk is a conversation! Maybe I just want to vent and not to hear.
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 157d
In an in person conversation, that's definitely true. Not so much online though.
CidVicious@piefed.zip · 5 pts · 157d
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.
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 157d
Context is key. It can express empathy, or disappointment, or awe.
Context is always key.
answersplease77@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 155d
"Bruh.. sorry for your loss"
WhiteRabbit_33@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 157d
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".
FloatingAlong@lemmy.world · 62 pts · 157d
bruh
snekerpimp@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 157d
Oof
Martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 157d
Winter_Oven@piefed.social · 51 pts · 157d
I bring you: broof
contributes confusion to the conversation
RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip · 12 pts · 157d
Shortened form of brohoof
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club · 10 pts · 157d
Which in turn was a nickname for Ooferson Bruholomew.
DmMacniel@feddit.org · 2 pts · 157d
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Hupf@feddit.org · 1 pts · 155d
Is that a brony thing?
waterSticksToMyBalls@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 157d
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.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 157d
Isn't that when Kavanaugh sticks a beer bong up his ass?
Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 157d
Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 157d
Sort of the sound of a confused dog
ulterno@programming.dev · -1 pts · 157d
Oouh!
SoupBrick@pawb.social · 37 pts · 157d
Me when the next generation comes up with slang and I don't like it:
angrystego@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 157d
Showing empathy is a valuable contribution.
daychilde@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 157d
Not only that, but acknowledging you heard the one speaking in a quick, unobstrusive, uninterrupting way.
Phunter@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 157d
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?
angrystego@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 156d
No.
itkovian@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 157d
Me being equally useless with "oof bruh".
blx@piefed.zip · 11 pts · 157d
Equally useless? More like twice as useless, you mean!
TachyonTele@piefed.social · 9 pts · 157d
Teach me your ways, master
itkovian@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 157d
That's easy. But you had to have been dropped on your head when you were a baby
TachyonTele@piefed.social · 5 pts · 157d
My friends mom dropped plates on his head when he was kid. Does that count?
itkovian@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 157d
Close enough. Now your friend ought to be pretty useless.
Yosmonkol@piefed.social · 4 pts · 157d
You just reinvented the midwestern "uff da". It sounds almost the same and can be used the same way.
mrtuttle@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 157d
this brightened my day.
Tudsamfa@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 157d
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.
spongeborgcubepants@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 157d
Ok, boomer
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 157d
That’s crazy, wow
Luvs2Spuj@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 157d
Big oof
MoonRaven@feddit.nl · 15 pts · 157d
Bruh
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 15 pts · 157d
Ugh
zebidiah@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 157d
Woof
svcg@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 12 pts · 157d
Yikes.
Agent641@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 155d
Wow
Bruhh@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 157d
Oof
Ghostie@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 157d
Localhorst86@feddit.org · 12 pts · 157d
tja...
tja@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 157d
You called?
MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net · 11 pts · 157d
...dude.
renzhexiangjiao@piefed.blahaj.zone · 11 pts · 157d
bros never heard about phatic expressions💀
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club · 10 pts · 157d
Broof.
SkyeLight@piefed.social · 10 pts · 157d
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.
Zangoose@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 157d
Wait this isn't something everyone does?
AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 157d
Dude..
swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 157d
☝️This
someguy3@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 157d
Damn.
Shit.
That is whack.
Una@europe.pub · 8 pts · 157d
Bruh
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 7 pts · 157d
Same
Venat0r@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 155d
me too thanks.
Reginald_T_Biter@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 157d
The way yanks use bro or bruh is like glass in my ear. Its so boorish and stupid sounding.
Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 156d
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.
Reginald_T_Biter@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 156d
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."
Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 155d
Thankfully 67 was squashed fast. Banned in the house, even his friends have stopped doing it here.
rustydrd@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 157d
Mood.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 157d
Hell yeah
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 157d
this fr ⤴️
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 157d
No cap
banazir@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 157d
Literally nobody:
POV: Bruh, not cool.
Jackhammer_Joe@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 157d
oof
Zamboni_Driver@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 157d
Oof, bruh, same..
AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 157d
Thats kinda the point
Apeman42@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 157d
I probably didn't want to have the conversation in the first place, now you want me to contribute to it too?
agent_nycto@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 157d
Ope
Chick0nPlayz@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 157d
Me saying broof to actively take away from the conversation:
phoenixz@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 156d
Ding ding ding!
HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 156d
Wat
FreddiesLantern@leminal.space · 2 pts · 156d
snick
“Oh shit! Sorry pall!”
Twipped@l.twipped.social · 1 pts · 154d
neidu3@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 157d
helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 157d
This is like when people repeat the joke contributing nothing to the conservation.