c/curatedtumblr · by SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1yI am whelmed to learn this information 611 points · 38 comments · view on lemmy.world
38 Comments
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world · 50 pts · 1y
Why does "gruntled" sound even more unhappy than "disgruntled?"
weastie@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 1y
Probably because "grunt" is a sound you usually make when unhappy.
flicker@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y
It's a real fiction, non-fiction switcheroo.
henfredemars@infosec.pub · 39 pts · 1y
My flabbers are gasted.
kux@lemm.ee · 23 pts · 1y
apologies for the kindle screenshot, can't find the plain text anywhere
page 191, the etymologicon, mark forsyth
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1y
"You can add the frequentive suffix and call the pig a gruntler" sounds like profanity from a sci-fi movie.
thenextguy@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 1y
I thought it was the opposite of datgruntled.
Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 1y
Oh shit it's dis boi
Speculater@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1y
I'm gonna gruntle so hard today!
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works · -4 pts · 1y
It's not a verb.
federalreverse@feddit.org · 38 pts · 1y
In English, everything verbs.
thenextguy@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 1y
Don't verb nouns; it weirds language.
activ8r@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 1y
Don't talk me what to do.
kabi@lemm.ee · 28 pts · 1y
xep@fedia.io · 12 pts · 1y
Wow you're disgruntling so much there
Wild_Mastic@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y
I'm gruntling a lot at those comments
Voyajer@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
Denominalization goes brrr
adam_y@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y
NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 1y
I know a Norwegian called Gorm and I can indeed imagine him saying this
someguy3@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y
I am nonplussed.
thenextguy@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y
This entire thread is very chalant.
Rusty@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y
I find it sensical.
stupidcasey@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
Same reason you don’t know individual is the opposite of dividual and derived from indivisible. Collective amnesia.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y
we do use "divide(d)" a lot though which is very close.
lath@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
Above an underling you will find a ling and above them, you will find an overling.
Dicska@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y
The existence of weaklings implies the existence of stronglings.
deikoepfiges_dreirad@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 1y
because it's just a joke.
Revan343@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 1y
Pfft, seems perfectly cromulent to me.
lgmjon64@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
There's a whole song about it: https://youtu.be/F6yGpJCEzqw?si=x6bz6BFG5Hxrwpps
someguy3@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
https://youtu.be/F6yGpJCEzqw without the trackers.
dmMeYourNudes@lemmynsfw.com · 6 pts · 1y
YexingTudou@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 1y
Why isn't anyone just whelmed?
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y
I think I'm more combobulated.
Randelung@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
Also fun: chuffed. It's a contronym!
Thcdenton@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
Happy gruntled noises
Assman@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1y
It gruntles the mind
TeoTwawki@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
This gruntles Zulthar.
Rbon@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 1y
I was gruntled when it was just feet on gravel. To have come apart, I must have once been raveled.
whaleross@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Gruntle - the revival of grunge with a motivational spin.
Nasan@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 1y
Keep your employees gruntled.