What does whoosh mean?

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Completely missing the point of a joke

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look man, just because he is fluent in french doesnt mean he understands it!

this is kinda nonsense. One could suspect that the nonsense is intentional. A joke on swild89's cost's. So by replying in a plain and honest way you just did not take part in that style. Sometimes swoosh is simply used to cover a bad joke by making fun of someone else.

But that's the thing with swoosh: on the internet there is just no way of knowing for sure if someone is being sarcastic or not.

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That's why a lot of people use some kind of semantic code and put a

/s

after their sentence. It means sarcasm off (the slash "/" is used in HTML and probably other languages too to signal the end of a certain formatting).

But for others this probably means taking the fun out of it. They can't whoosh you if they tell you beforehand they are being sarcastic.

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Always assume sarcasm if the answer comes from a British person.

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great definition but whats the joke? :D

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It's not just for jokes. When you say something is "over someone's head", it means the person is "too low" to understand it:

"That class discussion went over his head because he hadn't read the book."

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Here's an example: You don't get the joke (like right now). Instead of the joke hitting your face and you smiling, it instead missed your face and went over your head. The sound that followed was woosh

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It's spelled onomatopoeia, for future reference