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I'm too dumb to get this one...why is this funny?
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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.
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I'm too dumb to get this one...why is this funny?
Because Merriam Webster creates and produces the dictionary of the English language. They're literally the one who decides if a word is official. Their retort is succinct.
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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
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Because Merriam Webster creates and produces the dictionary of the English language. They're literally the one who decides if a word is official. Their retort is succinct.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Nope. They document what words are in common use. English is a "form follows usage" kind of language, where popularity of a word makes it correct. That's why "literally" can mean its own antonym and influencers get to make up new meanings for Fetch and Mid.
Less architectural, more suicide note.
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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“
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I am whelmed by this exchange
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I am whelmed by this exchange
whelm /wĕlm, hwĕlm/
transitive verb- To cover with water; submerge.
- To overwhelm.
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I'm too dumb to get this one...why is this funny?
Dude's arguing with the dictionary.
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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.
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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.
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Because Merriam Webster creates and produces the dictionary of the English language. They're literally the one who decides if a word is official. Their retort is succinct.
wrote last edited by [email protected]How is just tagging him by name, and repeating his first name succinct? I don't get any sort of meaning from that response, it reads like a mistyped response.
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whelm /wĕlm, hwĕlm/
transitive verb- To cover with water; submerge.
- To overwhelm.
OP wants to let you know that this exchange made them wet
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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
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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.
The punctuation is pretty clear tho.
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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.. "
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How is just tagging him by name, and repeating his first name succinct? I don't get any sort of meaning from that response, it reads like a mistyped response.
Just imagine your mom saying your full name with an audible full stop, right after you said/did something a bit dumb
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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.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Mom: Ok, let's get in the car time to go.
Child named Brian: But there is no car.
Mom: Brian!
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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
