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They would be better gruntled two years later since K.U. would win the NCAAA Tournament in 1987.
by JKCalhoun 3y ago
They would be better gruntled two years later since K.U. would win the NCAAA Tournament in 1987.
- bee_rider 3y agoThere should be a word for these back-formations that specifically come from cutting this prefix looking thing off the front of a word to invert their meaning. Disgruntled -> gruntled Unhinged -> hinged
- sour-taste 3y agoWhat if we called them k formations, by applying the same rule we're trying to describe to the word backfoations? Overwhelmed/underwhelmed -> whelmed Discombobulated -> combobulate Disghust -> ghust
- jprete 3y agoOT, but I looked up "whelmed" in after reading your comment and...we never really needed "overwhelmed" at all. Just plain "whelmed" seems bad enough.
- ajcp 3y agoI use "whelming" almost daily to denote something that I or the person I'm talking to expect to be over/underwhelming, but turns out not to be. Them: "How'd you like that new burger joint Bad Jimmies? I heard it's amazing!" Me: "Not bad, but I found their burgers to be...[0] whelming." 0. The pregnant pause-for-effect is very important here, since it makes even the use of "whelming" a whelming experience.
- worstspotgain 3y agohttps://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/humor/how-i-met-my-wife.html https://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/humor/how-i-met-my-wife...
- aj7 3y agoInadvertently -> advertently
- jki275 3y agoDanny Manning for President.