They sure are! That’s how humans communicate 🙂
Look at you! Using those big boy words. Keep practicing, and you’ll use them to make whole sentences some day! 

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 Wasn’t being a dick dude, was just trying to be funny. 

 That you felt attacked though and responded the way you did speaks volumes.