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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

This gruntles Zulthar.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

why does nobody use this word?

because it's just a joke.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Pfft, seems perfectly cromulent to me.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why isn't anyone just whelmed?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I think I'm more combobulated.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Keep your employees gruntled.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago
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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

apologies for the kindle screenshot, can't find the plain text anywhere

page 191, the etymologicon, mark forsyth

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

"You can add the frequentive suffix and call the pig a gruntler" sounds like profanity from a sci-fi movie.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Same reason you don’t know individual is the opposite of dividual and derived from indivisible. Collective amnesia.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

we do use "divide(d)" a lot though which is very close.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Gruntle - the revival of grunge with a motivational spin.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

Also fun: chuffed. It's a contronym!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

It gruntles the mind

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Happy gruntled noises

[–] [email protected] 47 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Why does "gruntled" sound even more unhappy than "disgruntled?"

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago

Probably because "grunt" is a sound you usually make when unhappy.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

It's a real fiction, non-fiction switcheroo.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This entire thread is very chalant.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I find it sensical.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

I know a Norwegian called Gorm and I can indeed imagine him saying this

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Above an underling you will find a ling and above them, you will find an overling.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

The existence of weaklings implies the existence of stronglings.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 days ago

My flabbers are gasted.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I thought it was the opposite of datgruntled.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Oh shit it's dis boi

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm gonna gruntle so hard today!

[–] [email protected] -5 points 3 days ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Denominalization goes brrr

[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 days ago (1 children)

In English, everything verbs.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Don't verb nouns; it weirds language.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Don't talk me what to do.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Wow you're disgruntling so much there

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I'm gruntling a lot at those comments

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 days ago