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Streets wrote:
matt7215 wrote: i was very underwhelmed by spearhead
If that's a word...
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Streets wrote:
matt7215 wrote: i was very underwhelmed by spearhead
If that's a word...
No it's not. I looked it up.
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TheSevenDuffs wrote:
Streets wrote:
matt7215 wrote: i was very underwhelmed by spearhead
If that's a word...
No it's not. I looked it up.
Didn't look very hard then :wink:

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/underwhelmed

But isn't this word usually reserved for Trafalgar?
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Torontoblue wrote:http://www.thefreedictionary.com/underwhelmed

But isn't this word usually reserved for Trafalgar?
That would be an improvement... :lol:
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Very good, but like someone said, not at 3 dollars a can. Especially when Smash bomb is more readily available, and is arguably just as good. Mad tom may have been better, but lost me when it went up almost a dollar.

Only bought two of them because I had 8 dollars left on an LCBO gift card from christmas. Now if they came in standard 12-13 dollars six packs I'd be all over that like flies on shit every friday.
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TheSevenDuffs wrote:
Streets wrote:
matt7215 wrote: i was very underwhelmed by spearhead
If that's a word...
No it's not. I looked it up.
Is that one of the skills you learned in your school?
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I'm not overwhelmed at the price of Red Racer at all. And I'm sure of that.
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aw...sloan references...

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TheSevenDuffs wrote:
Streets wrote:
matt7215 wrote: i was very underwhelmed by spearhead
If that's a word...
No it's not. I looked it up.
Underwhelmed is a bad neologism.

Etymologically it makes no sense, as 'overwhelm' means (metaphorically) overcome by a wave washing over (as when it would capsize a boat.) There is no real antonym to 'overwhelm' since you can't be simply 'whelmed.'

'Welle' is the German for 'wave.'

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Belgian wrote:
TheSevenDuffs wrote:
Streets wrote: If that's a word...
No it's not. I looked it up.
Underwhelmed is a bad neologism.

Etymologically it makes no sense, as 'overwhelm' means (metaphorically) overcome by a wave washing over (as when it would capsize a boat.) There is no real antonym to 'overwhelm' since you can't be simply 'whelmed.'

'Welle' is the German for 'wave.'

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But underwhelmed is such a useful word, everyone knows what you mean when you say it. Doesn't really matter what its etymology is.
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I've got no problem with the word underwhelmed.

I say if it feels good do it...
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JeffPorter wrote:I've got no problem with the word underwhelmed.

I say if it feels good do it...
Someone would have to coax me to do it more often.

*back to my glass of concentrated OJ*
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andrewrg wrote:But underwhelmed is such a useful word, everyone knows what you mean when you say it. Doesn't really matter what its etymology is.
Yes you are right. People working in broadcast media use 'decimated' to mean 'destroyed' even though the word's etymology suggests it means only 'diminished by one-tenth' (deci = ten.)

So 'usage prevails' - our mongrel English language doesn'y always evolve logically - though it maybe has more power and clarity when words' origins make sense.

Whelm on!
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Belgian wrote:
andrewrg wrote:But underwhelmed is such a useful word, everyone knows what you mean when you say it. Doesn't really matter what its etymology is.
Yes you are right. People working in broadcast media use 'decimated' to mean 'destroyed' even though the word's etymology suggests it means only 'diminished by one-tenth' (deci = ten.)

So 'usage prevails' - our mongrel English language doesn'y always evolve logically - though it maybe has more power and clarity when words' origins make sense.

Whelm on!
This place seems to be full of English majors :)
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