PeterExplainsTheJoke
I don’t understand Petah
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he said "No it isn't merrriam webster." like he was calling a person by their full government name like you would a child that has said something stupid and offensive. The page responded by saying "Brian." which is a condescending way to get someone to self reflect when you have said something stupid, in this case telling the dictionary what is and isn't a word when they have just told you that is a word and they are the experts.
Merriam-Webster vs. merrriam
The joke is that Brian can't spell and is trying to correct the dictionary people. Merriam-Webster account is giving a sarcastic "Brian. 😐"
I am sure that incorrectly correcting them and misspelling their name that is spelled in front of him are both part of the joke yes.
This is the joke. Should be the top comment.
Yes, it would have been easier to understand if they had figured out a way to type it in italics.
Chalant
Whelmed.
boring fact: whelmed is a synonym of overwhelmed
Conceivable
I think that word means what you think it means.
I could imagine that. Conceive of it even
But is it a synonym of underwhelmed? 🤔
Kinda like literally is a synonym for figuratively, due to misuse?
No, it's more like whelmed means loaded and overwhelmed means overloaded lol.
Gruntled 😃
I just realised, does that mean that Gruntling is a word? As in the present participle of gruntl(e).
"We are gruntling today, we try to bring smiles to as many people as possible"
"Gotta go gruntle the shareholders after last weeks productivity reports"
"If you are not out there gruntling and calming those cows in the next two minutes, im not making meringue for pudding!"
Interesting I only knew it as a sarcastic response to someone asking how you felt about something that met expectations but did not cause an emotional response.
whelm /wĕlm, hwĕlm/
transitive verb
- To cover with water; submerge.
- To overwhelm.
- To cover with water or other fluid; to cover by immersion in something that envelops on all sides; to overwhelm; to ingulf
so it's english for bukkake?
....yes?
Actually no... that would be dash, splash or sprinkle.
Yeah, but a "big ol sprinkle on their face" doesn't have quite the same ring to it.
Sprinkle?! I believe that such a small quantity would disqualify it from being Bukkake.
Bukkakeru: (ichidan verb, transitive verb) to dash (water, etc.; on someone or something); to throw (on); to pour (over)
Now you know :D
Reasonable. However if I watch a bukkake video and a person is getting sprinkled on. Either I was in the wrong section or its a very lame video.
TIL….
Couth
Derneath
Ified
Wait, that too? This by far is the strangest
No man this one is a joke. The prefix in 'underneath' is 'under-' not 'un-'.
Traught
Heartened
Combobulated
Stay traught
Flammable.
Gruntled
Okay but why is this one specifically so funny to me
I'm very gruntled by it
I'm very Gruntilda'd by it.
Is it gruntling you?
It absolutely gruntles me
Heck, I was practically regruntled.
Came here to post this one. Well done.
plussed
There is a term for words like this, where the word "chalant" has fallen out of favor but it's counterpart nonchalant has persisted. I forget the term, but I saw it on QI.
It’s called a Blue Whale.
"Inscrutable" implies that things can also be "scrutable" and that you can "scrute" something.
Vincible
Ruth
They're calling him by his first name in a "Mate, think about what you are trying to do right now" way.
Specifically, trying to start an argument against a dictionary about what is and isn't a real word.
And you’ve misspelled the dictionary’s name
Brian here... oh word, I have the same name as that idiot in the post..
sips mojito
You could replace "Brian" with "Bruh.." and it would mean the same thing here
Yes, obviously that meaning comes from Eminem, and Icould be an idiot, but I thought Stan was a mix of STalker fAN.
Dennis doesn't have the same qualities.
AFAIK, that’s a backronym by fans that he’s never confirmed.
Ah okay. I didn't know that
I have basically earned a PhD in Phineas and Ferb over the last five years.
Amazing information. Great to know. Do you have a follow-up?
I thought so too, so I'm confused
I love words that we usually express through their negation. We have so many disgruntled people, but nobody calls themselves gruntled. Few are vincible. Or canny. Many are diseased, but few eased.
an appointing comment, bravo
I mean, i am pretty vincible myself.
But deceased and ceased mean the same thing.
Also, one could feel ‘at ease’ thus being not ‘dis eased’ welts being ‘diseased’ but ‘at ease’, then having been given the remedy for the ‘disease’ be ‘eased’.
Brian.
Brian.
I know someone who said judgement is a verb. When I pointed out it wasn't and sent a dictionary link, he said that if I studied old dictionaries like he did, I would know it used to be a verb but they changed it.
Maybe this is one of those situations.
Ask him for conjugations
I told him to send a pic of the old dictionary he was studying and he never replied
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I dunno why the page called that guy by his name.
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I run an office full of gruntled employees.
precedented just mean it already hapen
All words are made up
are you Brian?
Lol no comment
I think that the dude said Merriam Webster in a sarcastic way like "Who do you think you are, the dictionary people?" without checking the name to see that the account they're replying to, which is in fact the dictionary people.
Disappointed OED didn't jump in to back them up
These times seem precedented, like very well documented times. The names have changed but the beat remains the same.
Did anyone else read that “Brian” in Stewie’s voice?
He’s trying to mansplain the English language to the people that define the English language.
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In America (the book) we see Stephen Colbert precedenteded, the word precedented.
Hes telling the dictionary that precedented is not a word
It is a real word though
Brian
They’re good dogs Brent
Why are you so mad Bront?
Brend can't take a joke.
Brant should learn his lesson.
Brandt can't watch, though, or he has to pay a hundred.
Bruhdt is just messing around
My son is also named Bhort.
I’m just gonna go find a cash machine
Wait, did I black out? What did I do?!
And thorough
I say this to my wife daily still
Brian Tarbell Brian.
That sounded like my disappointed grandma.
The joke is how utterly stupid or conceited Brian is in thinking he knows English better than one of the top dictionary companies, while being so dense they're using the name as if they were a person.
r/idiocracy
No. He's saying precedented isn't Merriam Webster. /s
I don't think anyone has ever done that before
or he's saying that precedented is more common than Mariam Webster thinks.
Brian.