Slang Word-Coiners

[Grant Barrett]

On 3/21/02 22:25, "Mark A Mandel" <mam at THEWORLD.COM> wrote:

> On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Laurence Horn wrote:
>
> # From the Simpsons:  "Don't have a cow", "Ay caramba", and many others
>
> Much more common than either of these is "D'ohh!", which imho is well on
> its way to full adoption. ISTM that one point in its favor is that it
> expresses "Oh, I feel so dumb for making that mistake!" much more
> concisely than almost any pre-existing expression. The only competition
> is "Duh!", which can also mean "You are so dumb for not having realized
> that before!", and in e-conversation (email, newsgroups, chat, etc.)
> can't be disambiguated by intonation and facial expression.

I'd like to point out Doy!, still in use, which is a harsher form of Duh!.