Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 9:56 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RHf07SA3vgStreets wrote:If that's a word...matt7215 wrote: i was very underwhelmed by spearhead
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Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 10:02 am
No it's not. I looked it up.Streets wrote:If that's a word...matt7215 wrote: i was very underwhelmed by spearhead
Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 10:21 am
Didn't look very hard thenTheSevenDuffs wrote:No it's not. I looked it up.Streets wrote:If that's a word...matt7215 wrote: i was very underwhelmed by spearhead
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/underwhelmed
But isn't this word usually reserved for Trafalgar?
Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 10:58 am
That would be an improvement...Torontoblue wrote:http://www.thefreedictionary.com/underwhelmed
But isn't this word usually reserved for Trafalgar?
Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2012 4:42 pm
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.
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.
Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2012 5:25 pm
Is that one of the skills you learned in your school?TheSevenDuffs wrote:No it's not. I looked it up.Streets wrote:If that's a word...matt7215 wrote: i was very underwhelmed by spearhead
Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2012 6:01 pm
I'm not overwhelmed at the price of Red Racer at all. And I'm sure of that.
Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2012 10:11 pm
aw...sloan references...
Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2012 11:57 pm
Underwhelmed is a bad neologism.TheSevenDuffs wrote:No it's not. I looked it up.Streets wrote:If that's a word...matt7215 wrote: i was very underwhelmed by spearhead
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.'
BUT WHO CARES?
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 7:19 am
Chris Murphy doesBelgian wrote:Underwhelmed is a bad neologism.TheSevenDuffs wrote:No it's not. I looked it up.Streets wrote: If that's a word...
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.'
BUT WHO CARES?
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 9:09 am
But underwhelmed is such a useful word, everyone knows what you mean when you say it. Doesn't really matter what its etymology is.
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 9:34 am
I've got no problem with the word underwhelmed.
I say if it feels good do it...
I say if it feels good do it...
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 11:21 am
Someone would have to coax me to do it more often.JeffPorter wrote:I've got no problem with the word underwhelmed.
I say if it feels good do it...
*back to my glass of concentrated OJ*
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 11:53 am
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.)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.
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!
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 12:10 pm
This place seems to be full of English majorsBelgian wrote: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.)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.
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!
