I am whelmed by this exchange
I’m somewhat gruntled
This whole exchange is tressing.
It’s perfectly cromulent
whelm /wĕlm, hwĕlm/
transitive verb- To cover with water; submerge.
- To overwhelm.
OP wants to let you know that this exchange made them wet ☝️🤓
Everything reminds me of her.
Technically correct (still the best kind of correct). However, the meaning has changed a but due to the word’s falling into disuse. Colloquially, it is now used as a mid-point between overwhelmed and underwhelmed, describing a situation as a mundane experience. Not disappointing, too stimulating, or even satisfying; just neutral (“Tell my wife I said ‘Hello’”).
Brian represents that group of people that just say, “No it’s not!”, with authority. I forgot what they call themselves.
Confidently incorrect, to me at least.
Contrarians?
OMG no. That’s not it! Jesus
Idiots?
Brian?
I’m more of a Wictionary guy, myself.
Is that a dictionary for witches? Or did you misspell wiktionary?
I’m too dumb to get this one…why is this funny?
Merriam-Webster is literally the dictionary, and Brian is trying to correct them on what is and is not a word.
Yes that part I get, but I don’t get the reply from the Merriam Webster account and why that is funny
Because they’re being like “bro please, come on“
Huh…what they actually write in the response in no way suggests that to me, it’s just completely nonsensical like they started typing the response but accidentally hit send too soon and just didn’t bother fixing it.
Well, then you learned something new today. Be glad and enjoy your enlightenment 🤗
Mom: Ok, let’s get in the car, time to go.
Child named Brian: But there is no car.
Mom: Brian!
You’ve excellently demonstrated how different contexts makes different things work…you scenario has no similarities to the image
You can’t act like a precise robot that is always right and also beep your red sirens when other people are seeing humor that you don’t see. If you’re being a robot then chances are you are wrong about the jokes.
In this case the juxtaposition of the natural in-person way of speaking and the unnatural asynchronous text chat if twitter is the source of the humor. When you say that the two scenarios are not similar, that is part of the engine that drives the joke and makes it funny. It’s as if you see shutting everyone down for misunderstanding that it was not a sports bar but in fact a metal pipe that the two men walked into when the one man ducked.
I am merely intending to show how ‘just saying someone’s name’ can be taken as a reprimand/mild reproach. Which is what is happening in the original image.
At this point so many people have explained this that I feel you might be willfully ignorant. Cut it out.
I think you were correct in your top comment
It’s a joke. You don’t get it.
That’s okay
@[email protected] ExcessShiv.
The punctuation is pretty clear tho.
Dude.
Outstanding
ExcessShiv.
Dude’s arguing with the dictionary.
Like I already wrote in a different reply, that part I get, it’s the Merriam Webster response that doesn’t make sense to me.
So you’ve learned today that you can just say someone’s name as an equivalent to an exasperated "bro… "
Is he arguing with fhe dictionary?!!wtf
My opinion is that once someone invents a word, it exists forever, even if it’s later marked as obsolete/archaic.
Conversely, just because the dictionary doesn’t have a word, doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.
