Comments on: Aargh!

Aargh!

goodnewsfortheinsane — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 10:45:45 -0800

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 10:46:12 -0800

By: Slothrop

Slothrop — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 10:58:03 -0800

Ya know I try to stay out of these kinds of discussions, but gnfti, this is truly the best of the Web. This is the kind of thing I try to point to when describing to people what the Web is really good for... thanks!

By: Mr Bluesky

Mr Bluesky — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 11:02:21 -0800

Errrrrrrr???? Hmmmm...pschhhhwwwwwww!

By: LeLiLo

LeLiLo — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 11:03:30 -0800

I always thought that word had a u in it, thanks to this well-known guy.

By: dydecker

dydecker — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 11:07:21 -0800

I clicked. Someone talked about how to spell 'aargh'. That was it. I feel sorry for his friends and his wife.

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 11:09:33 -0800

Yeah lelilo, that's obviously the British spelling - Charlie Brown probably wanted to look sophisticated taking a dive in front of Lucy like that.

By: CynicalKnight

CynicalKnight — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 11:10:58 -0800

An interesting blip at (15, 9). A window into the algorithms of the human mind? Reminds me of the oddities that appear when you google asdf and qwer

By: delmoi

delmoi — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 11:15:30 -0800

hehe.

By: jacquilynne

jacquilynne — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 11:15:49 -0800

This is perfectly wonderful.

By: JHarris

JHarris — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 11:22:43 -0800

Aiiiee!

By: stbalbach

stbalbach — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 11:25:47 -0800

arghwesome.

By: furiousthought

furiousthought — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 11:45:57 -0800

I feel sorry for his friends and his wife. Well but how much of the people on the internet could you say that about?

By: Heywood Mogroot

Heywood Mogroot — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 11:46:31 -0800

Steele is one smart cookie. He worked on Dylan at Apple and created Laszlo, the Flash-workalike. Previous blog post about the good side of Apple Computer's limited offerings.

By: slogger

slogger — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 11:55:54 -0800

this is truly good news for the insane.

By: Alvy Ampersand

Alvy Ampersand — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 11:56:58 -0800

I use both to communicate similar, but still distinct, emotions. "Aargh!" for anger and frustration, and "Aaugh!" for desperation and anguish. But now I wonder, why? Do I do that because of the letters used (Aargh & Anger are both 'aggressively' spelled and pronounced, while Aaugh & Anguish are 'softer'), or because I associate perennial loser Charlie Brown with the latter? Was Shulz's addition of the U arbitrary, or did the spelling/pronunciation have same connotation for him... ? ... Urm, sorry. And thanks for the thought provoking post, goodnews!

By: PercussivePaul

PercussivePaul — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 12:11:28 -0800

It's great, except that argh has a third dimension: multiple 'h's. example

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 12:12:15 -0800

But what if you're angry and desperate, but not frustrated or anguished?

By: Aknaton

Aknaton — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 12:26:54 -0800

This is the only one-word one-link post to ever deserve [good post]. so noone else should ever make one again

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 12:36:10 -0800

I need one of these for all those words created by Don Martin.

By: Smedleyman

Smedleyman — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 12:44:49 -0800

Well waitaminute - at some point the anger and frustration "Aargh!" turns into the Pirate "Aaaarrrrgh!" or as PercussivePaul pointed out pain and perhaps a death rattle.

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 12:52:00 -0800

What about the "castle of aaarrrggghhhh"? I'm sure there are myriad variants of that, too.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 12:55:06 -0800

This is the kind of thing I try to point to when describing to people what the Web is really good for. *tumbleweed*

By: dhartung

dhartung — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 13:11:11 -0800

this is truly good news for the insane. No need to get eponysterical about it. But what if you're angry and desperate, but not frustrated or anguished? See, to me "arrgh" is angry and desperate; frustrated or anguished would be "aaugh".

By: ab3

ab3 — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 13:23:34 -0800

yeah, great, but, um... how do you pronounce it? and yes, this is great stuff... much as i hate to admit it, this is the kind of thing i won't be able to help telling friends about for weeks to come and receiving that "what the hell is wrong with you" look in return...

By: gramschmidt

gramschmidt — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 13:32:19 -0800

No mention of ärgh or ærgh, though. Otherwise, excellent.

By: Debaser626

Debaser626 — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 13:38:09 -0800

But what about baited breath?

By: PeterMcDermott

PeterMcDermott — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 14:12:02 -0800

I've just been reading Cards by Jonathan Maxwell. It's either a self-published novel, or is published by a very small press so they seem to have completely done away with the need for a proofreader. (The amount you bet is a stake, not a steak. A stick of french bread is a baguette, not a bagget.) But the misspelling that annoyed me most was his continual use of yea instead of yeah. I was continually expecting him to write, yea, verily, and trips cometh on the flop...

By: Meredith

Meredith — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 14:29:34 -0800

Peter: the "yea" thing is a personal pet peeve of mine, and I used to get on my boss several times a day for that. Also "ya'll." This is a great link.

By: eriko

eriko — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 14:36:36 -0800

Argh!

By: Effigy2000

Effigy2000 — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 15:22:24 -0800

By: Aknaton

Aknaton — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 16:01:39 -0800

His Hmmm page is pretty cool too. It would never have occccurrrrred to me to put more Haitches in that word.

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 17:28:22 -0800

Yes, Effigy2000, it *is* better in colour. ;)

By: weapons-grade pandemonium

weapons-grade pandemonium — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 17:38:03 -0800

The "islands" are fascinating. It's great fun in Google Images, where totally different pictures come up for each additional "a". But if you add even two "r"s, the images dwindle, and Google asks, "Did you mean: aaaaaaargh?" Good post, goodnews.

By: MonkeySaltedNuts

MonkeySaltedNuts — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 20:12:28 -0800

I point out that much of his a*r*gh data distribution is bogus.

By: obvious

obvious — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 21:28:42 -0800

THBPBPTHPT.

By: dhartung

dhartung — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 22:36:30 -0800

I forgot about Aaugh.com. Besides the obvious, it's the home of Abusing Amazon Images, which techniques I just used on my blog today.

By: nobody

nobody — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 09:39:43 -0800

Great post, gnfti.