I am whelmed to learn this information

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AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world · 50 pts · 1y (2 replies)

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 (1 reply)

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 (1 reply)

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 (8 replies)

I'm gonna gruntle so hard today!

iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works · -4 pts · 1y (7 replies)

It's not a verb.

federalreverse@feddit.org · 38 pts · 1y (2 replies)

In English, everything verbs.

thenextguy@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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
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xep@fedia.io · 12 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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 (1 reply)
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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 (2 replies)

I am nonplussed.

thenextguy@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y (1 reply)

This entire thread is very chalant.

Rusty@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y

I find it sensical.

stupidcasey@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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 (1 reply)

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 (1 reply)

why does nobody use this word?

because it's just a joke.

Revan343@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 1y

Pfft, seems perfectly cromulent to me.

lgmjon64@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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 (1 reply)

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
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.