I am whelmed by this exchange
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I am the-moon.
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.
I'm frankly plussed.
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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
Their response is "Brian....". Like "let me hold your hand whole I say this"
It looks weird because they tagged him first
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Brian represents that group of people that just say, “No it’s not!”, with authority. I forgot what they call themselves.
Idiots?
Brian?
Contrarians?
The call themselves right. But not in the sense that they're aligned with that political ideology. They just think they're the only correct ones and everyone... else... is... (...wait a second...).
Confidently incorrect, to me at least.
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.
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In what was almost certainly a precedented move, Brian was wrong.
And so is my spell-checker.
Who says you can't hear tone in text?
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