In case you didn’t know, “ahh” originated as an eye dialect form of “ass” representing a debuccalized pronunciation used in some dialects of AAVE, I think Southern dialects specifically — so “ahh” was not originally intended as a word replacement, any more than “ass” was intended as a word replacement of “arse”. Rather “ahh” was just a representation of how the word was pronounced by some people.
The problem is that probably most people online who use “ahh” instead of “ass” nowadays are either tu-vuo-falling Black people, or they find “ahh” inherently comical, or they’re using “ahh” to evade social media censorship bots.
The reason you’ve never seen someone say “tu-vuo-fall” before is because I literally made it up just for this comment! Heheh, I have memories of being the lone American in my school, hearing my peers loudly play Seppo music in the breaks, using gratuitous English and dressing up like their favorite Yanks, and I’d just retreat out of sight and drown out their noise by putting on that song. So I wanted to sort of channel that feeling, I guess.
I’m the same with people using AHHH instead of ass.
When I was a kid language was getting more swears and fewer slurs, when did ass become a bad word again?
In case you didn’t know, “ahh” originated as an eye dialect form of “ass” representing a debuccalized pronunciation used in some dialects of AAVE, I think Southern dialects specifically — so “ahh” was not originally intended as a word replacement, any more than “ass” was intended as a word replacement of “arse”. Rather “ahh” was just a representation of how the word was pronounced by some people.
The problem is that probably most people online who use “ahh” instead of “ass” nowadays are either tu-vuo-falling Black people, or they find “ahh” inherently comical, or they’re using “ahh” to evade social media censorship bots.
I’ve never seen this “tu-vuo-falling” expression (I know the song), and it’s kind of great.
The reason you’ve never seen someone say “tu-vuo-fall” before is because I literally made it up just for this comment! Heheh, I have memories of being the lone American in my school, hearing my peers loudly play Seppo music in the breaks, using gratuitous English and dressing up like their favorite Yanks, and I’d just retreat out of sight and drown out their noise by putting on that song. So I wanted to sort of channel that feeling, I guess.