I also have a problem with "yanno". I was pronouncing it like "yan- oh"

That's how it sounds to me, too.

"Ya" doesn't bother me the way that "he" (as an expression of amusement) does, because "ya," while not the colloquial form *I* choose to indicate the affirmative, is an acceptable form.

But "he" for "hee" will never sit right with me because it's abuse of a pronoun, and SOMEONE has to defend the poor pronouns!!!

t edit Like I said, I know I'm a freak. I'm good with that.

Whenever I read "ya," (as opposed to, I suppose, "yeah" or even "yea"), I hear it in that really exaggerated Fargo/Prairie Home Companion accent.

I do this, and I also hear "yea" pronounced as "yay" in a kind of Olde Timey Englishe accent.

It would never in a million years occur to me that "he" was a laugh unless it were a string of them like hehehehehe.

The acronym I see almost everywhere but here is KWIM for "know what I mean?" and I hate it because the K in know is silent and so the acronym is totally nonintuitive for me.

KWIM?

...Okay, that just reads as a mis-spelling of quim, to me.

...Okay, that just reads as a mis-spelling of quim, to me.

EXACTLY.

Okay, that just reads as a mis-spelling of quim, to me.

Okay, I'm glad I'm not the only one...

Me four, although I have never seen it before now. I am bad at the internet acronyms. I usually know what they mean from seeing them in context, but not what they stand for. IDK and IDEK look like knitting stitch abbreviations to me.

quim quim quim quim quim quim quimmmity quim

edit: of course a minion walks into the office while that's posting.

I also hear "yea" pronounced as "yay" in a kind of Olde Timey Englishe accent.

I do, too, unless contextually it's clear that it's a colloquialism for "yes."

It would never in a million years occur to me that "he" was a laugh unless it were a string of them like hehehehehe.

When they're strung together, it still drives me nuts. And -- follow THIS (il)logic -- even though "he" is pronounced with a long "E," when they're strung together to indicate amusement, I hear them with a short "E." The reason why? Because to me, "hee" is the only "right" spelling, and so "he" is missing one "E" and therefore is a short "E" sound -- but ONLY in that instance.

I reiterate: FREAK, I AM.

Oh- I didn't know I was a freak because I hear

hehehehehe

in my head as

heh heh heh heh heh, like Beavis and Butthead, and I never realized that that wasn't what people intended.

I reiterate: FREAK, I AM.

And the rest of us are what? Chopped liver?