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What does "oooook" mean?

freebooter

freebooter

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I was just reading some posts in a thread on this forum, and many of the posters were using "oooook".
I've never seen this before (not spending much time lately in forums). Is it something from the text messaging code book? What, if anything, does "oooook" mean?
 
freebooter said:
I was just reading some posts in a thread on this forum, and many of the posters were using "oooook".
I've never seen this before (not spending much time lately in forums). Is it something from the text messaging code book? What, if anything, does "oooook" mean?
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Well, not knowing what your first language is, do you know what "OK" means (short for "okay")?

Adjective
S: (adj) all right, fine, o.k., ok, okay, hunky-dory (being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition) "an all-right movie"; "the passengers were shaken up but are all right"; "is everything all right?"; "everything's fine"; "things are okay"; "dinner and the movies had been fine"; "another minute I'd have been fine"

Adverb
S: (adv) very well, fine, alright, all right, OK (an expression of agreement normally occurring at the beginning of a sentence)

Now, when someone is a little befuddled, they might stretch it out and say "ooooooook".

Example:
Wife: Let's go to the burger place for dinner!
Me: OK!
-OR-
Wife: Let's go get dinner at that shady building that always smells like a dead whale!
Me: ooooooooook

Yeah...I don't really know how to explain this.
 
Put simply, multiple consecutive letters in a word outside of the norm means the sound that that letter makes is lengthened.

There are some words where this really doesn't work. For example, "gooooooooooo". Can anyone tell me what word that is?
 
That-Is-Bull said:
It's an acronym for "Obscurely Obsessive Object-Oriented Output Kinetics." It's a programming language.
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I really love my Mac, sometimes in an unhealthy way, and I have some cool ideas for new applications that I really want to impress on the World. I can't wait to start but I don't know anything about programing, perhaps this OOOOOK is the one for me? I really don't have a clue.

Is it the best? How can I get it, tell me how to install it and make my best ideas for the World come true, just you wait and see, my ideas are so hot that I'm sure their illegal in some states.

But please keep it simple because as I mentioned I really don't have a clue :eek:
 
That-Is-Bull said:
It's an acronym for "Obscurely Obsessive Object-Oriented Output Kinetics." It's a programming language.
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Damn, and here I thought it was the sound you make when your youngest child runs full tilt, headfirst into your stomach.

That really changes the meaning of some discussions for me...
 
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