# It is not he he he! Damnit! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 3, 2002, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-not-he-he-he-damnit/140233 "2002-12-03T16:19:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-not-he-he-he-damnit/140233/41 "2002-12-03T18:52:43Z")
> [@](#): > > Merry Christmas, Cranky!! > > hohoho So if “hehehe” means “hee hee hee,” does “hohoho” mean “hoo hoo hoo?” ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-not-he-he-he-damnit/140233/42 "2002-12-03T18:56:00Z")
But hehehe does not mean hee hee hee, it means hehehe, which is a sly chuckle. hoo hoo hoo is wholly separate from hohoho. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-not-he-he-he-damnit/140233/43 "2002-12-03T18:57:23Z")
Damn nits make lice. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-not-he-he-he-damnit/140233/44 "2002-12-03T19:02:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dantheman \* > \*\*But hehehe does not mean hee hee hee, it means hehehe, which is a sly chuckle. > > hoo hoo hoo is wholly separate from hohoho. \*\* And I’d explain further, but I wish not to be smacked by the **Crankstress**. ---
**Author:** ![Sterra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@Sterra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sterra)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-not-he-he-he-damnit/140233/45 "2002-12-03T19:09:57Z")
Alright. What does this mean. [xa xa xa](http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/zone/l/i/lipatov1/hitler03.gif.html) ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-not-he-he-he-damnit/140233/46 "2002-12-03T19:12:07Z")
As I understand it, Yeah is appropriate for “Yeah, I’m gonna kick dantheman’s ass” but not appropriate for “lieu just wrote another bathroom thread! Yeah lieu!” “Yeah” means “yes” but not “hurrah.” Thanks for the O vs. Oh distinction. I sometimes use “O” but only when I am trying to be melodramatic. Seems I should be melodramatic all the time, then. And I would prefer that my hoo-hoo not be discussed on this message board. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-not-he-he-he-damnit/140233/47 "2002-12-03T19:14:49Z")
O, untimely death! ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-not-he-he-he-damnit/140233/48 "2002-12-03T19:19:57Z")
Notice how I’m not answering **Sterra**? It’s because I have no clue. And I wanted to add this, just before getting my ass kicked by CaaOM… when I see that **Jodi** has posted to a thread I’ve posted to, I get the feeling I’m gonna get yelled at. Anyone else? ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-not-he-he-he-damnit/140233/49 "2002-12-03T19:35:52Z")
I just realized I have threatened another poster with violence. Fuck, am I banned now? dantheman, I meant to type that I was going to come over and do your laundry. ---
**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-not-he-he-he-damnit/140233/50 "2002-12-03T19:36:42Z")
While we are at it, it’s judgment, not judgement, and it’s remembrance, not rememberance. I also wrote a letter recently to MSNBC because they had an article where the words “effect” and “affect” were used mistakenly several times. It is apalling to thing the reporter and the editor both did not know the correct usage. Almost as bad is the people who use “impact” in place of effect because they are not sure if it is effect or affect. But my pet peeve is the way TV people say “is” instead of “has”: President Bush is visited a school today. They mean to contract it to “Bush’s” but they separate it again wrongly. You can hear the two words distinctly. This drives me nuts. People whose job it is to speak for the public should know how to speak correctly. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-not-he-he-he-damnit/140233/51 "2002-12-03T19:37:15Z")
Take out the “r laundry” part, and you got a deal. ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-not-he-he-he-damnit/140233/52 "2002-12-03T19:39:54Z")
> [@](#): > > When I see that Jodi has posted to a thread I’ve posted to, I get the feeling I’m gonna get yelled at. > > Anyone else? This, then, is my reputation? Fuck. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-not-he-he-he-damnit/140233/53 "2002-12-03T19:42:40Z")
See?? You all saw that. She yelled an obscenity at me. Hurled an epithet, even. Lobbed a cuss. Cuss Lobbings! New Olympic sport. ---
**Author:** ![blowero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/41988e/32.png) [@blowero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blowero)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-not-he-he-he-damnit/140233/54 "2002-12-03T20:02:15Z")
I’m with ya, Cranky. “He he he” looks fucking retarded. Here’s my addition: What the hell is an “argu **e** ment”? Is that some kind of British spelling or something? Argument has only one “e” in my dictionary. Give me a brake!😉 > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by pulykamell \* > \*\*And it’s “it’s” for the above “its.” \*\* Wrong, pronoun breath! Although his sentence construction is somewhat awkward, Cranky has correctly used the possessive pronoun “its”, rather than the contraction “it’s” (short for “it is”), as you have incorrectly suggested: **And “yeah” is not “yea.” I’d settle for “yay,” despite its not being in the dictionary, rather than "yeah."** Consider a similar sentence such as: “George Washington, despite his not being in the dictionary, was our first President.” - This sentence uses the possessive pronoun “his”. “George Washington, despite he is not being in the dictionary, was our first President.” - Obviously incorrect. Moral - before you correct someone’s grammar, know what the fuck you are talking about. ---
**Author:** ![mister\_me](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cdc98d/32.png) [@mister\_me](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mister_me)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-not-he-he-he-damnit/140233/55 "2002-12-03T20:06:34Z")
"This pet peeve of mine-- the misspelling of interjections–is about to drive me MAD. It is not “he he he.” It’s “HEE HEE HEE.” ## And “yeah” is not “yea.” I’d settle for “yay,” despite its not being in the dictionary, rather than “yeah.” Get used to it. You have the advent of electronic mail and the internet to thank. ---
**Author:** ![Alan\_Smithee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@Alan\_Smithee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Smithee)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-not-he-he-he-damnit/140233/56 "2002-12-03T20:15:04Z")
**Sterra** , didn’t you read the translation? It means “Muahahahahaha!!!” **dantheman** , hehehe does not mean hehehe. It might mean heh heh heh. Nothing can mean hehehe, because it is nonsense. It is halfway between heh heh heh and hee hee hee, and you can’t tell which is meant. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-not-he-he-he-damnit/140233/57 "2002-12-03T20:26:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Alan Smithee \* > \*\* > **dantheman** , hehehe does not mean hehehe. It might mean heh heh heh. Nothing can mean hehehe, because it is nonsense. It is halfway between heh heh heh and hee hee hee, and you can’t tell which is meant. \*\* You don’t exist. Go away. “hehehe does not mean hehehe,” indeed. Someone ought to revoke your poetic license. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-not-he-he-he-damnit/140233/58 "2002-12-03T20:29:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by blowero \* > **Wrong, pronoun breath! Although his sentence construction is somewhat awkward, Cranky has correctly used the possessive pronoun “its”, rather than the contraction “it’s” (short for “it is”), as you have incorrectly suggested** Ah, **blowero** , the quote is (I thought) referring to this: > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by pulykamell \* > \*\* > > And its “hehehe” in Internetese, so maybe that’s your qualm. > > \*\* So not to Cranky’s but **pulykamell’s** own post. But I might be wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-not-he-he-he-damnit/140233/59 "2002-12-03T20:35:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by mister\_me \* > \*\*Get used to it. You have the advent of electronic mail and the internet to thank. \*\* Sorry, but no. Do I have to “get used to” 733t h4x0r garbage too, just because it’s on the Internet? Screw that. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-not-he-he-he-damnit/140233/60 "2002-12-03T21:03:37Z")
Irregardless drives me nuts. So does that it’s vs its thing. Isn’t impact a noun? I hate it when people say “impactful.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-not-he-he-he-damnit/140233.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-not-he-he-he-damnit/140233.md?page=4)