There was a great Zits in the Sunday Chicago Tribune about the language of the teenage species, and today I found this Language Log entry about it. I agree with Liberman that the sounds haven't changed that much since I was a teenager.
While it wasn't teenspeak, the one utterance I have burned into what's left of my brain comes from Oliver Hardy in mid-calamity: O-OOOOoooo-oo-ooo! Ollie and Stanley left me in stitches!
It sometimes had a "D," and sometimes didn't, as I remember it. Maybe Matt Groening, "Simpsons" creator, was a Laurel and Hardy fan despite his being younger than you or I.
It is typically represented in the show's script as "(annoyed grunt)", and is so spelled out in the official titles of several episodes.[3]
When Dan Castellaneta, the voice of Homer, was first asked to voice the exclamation, he rendered it as a drawn out "doooh", inspired by Jimmy Finlayson, the moustachioed Scottish actor who appeared in 33 Laurel and Hardy films. Finlayson coined the term as a minced oath for suggesting the word "Damn!" without actually saying it. [4] The show's creator Matt Groening felt that it would better suit the timing of animation if it were spoken faster so Castellaneta shortened it to "D'oh!"[5]
