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minus-squaredrascus@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 years agowait you can be whelmed? I had never considered that I had only ever heard people say underwhelmed.
minus-squaredrascus@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 years agoIdon’t think so seems like whelemed and overwhelmed mean the same thing but whelm is out of usage https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/19430/why-do-people-say-over-and-underwhelmed-but-never-just-whelmed
minus-squareschmalls@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years agoIt is a quote from the movie “10 Things I Hate About You” which I have seen more times than I can count.
minus-squarestatic09@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years agoYou’re free to be overwhelmed, whelmed, or underwhelmed in any country! It’s just uncommon to remove any prefix from whelm.
minus-squareschmalls@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years agoIt is a quote from the movie “10 Things I Hate About You” which I have seen more times than I can count.
minus-squarestatic09@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years agoThere’s also overwhelm as well! Cool thing about most prefixes in English is that they can be changed out for other prefixes or completely removed. Though, one wouldn’t quite hear somebody say antiwhelmed there’s still nothing against it.
wait you can be whelmed? I had never considered that I had only ever heard people say underwhelmed.
I think you can in Europe.
Idon’t think so seems like whelemed and overwhelmed mean the same thing but whelm is out of usage https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/19430/why-do-people-say-over-and-underwhelmed-but-never-just-whelmed
It is a quote from the movie “10 Things I Hate About You” which I have seen more times than I can count.
You’re free to be overwhelmed, whelmed, or underwhelmed in any country! It’s just uncommon to remove any prefix from whelm.
It is a quote from the movie “10 Things I Hate About You” which I have seen more times than I can count.
There’s also overwhelm as well! Cool thing about most prefixes in English is that they can be changed out for other prefixes or completely removed. Though, one wouldn’t quite hear somebody say antiwhelmed there’s still nothing against it.