Something To Ponder... (1 Viewer)

[Andrew_Sch]

If you can be overwhelmed and underwhelmed, can you be just plain "whelmed?"
If you can be ruthless, can you be "ruth?"

 

[CameronS]

Reminds me of Aristotle's Mean, but because of the word usage, there is no middle ground with these terms.

 

[Leila Dougan]

Yes, whelm and ruth are words.
From www.m-w.com
whelm: (verb) to turn (as a dish or vessel) upside down usually to cover something
ruth: (noun) compassion for the misery of another
Overwhelm just means "to cover up completely", over + whelm.
And you can't "be ruth" (unless your name is Ruth LOL) but you can have ruth.
Its amazing what things the dictionary can teach us

 

[Mark C Sherman]

If that is the case I am going to learn How to LAX before I can RELAX

 

[Charles J P]

Maybe you cant be ruth, but can you be ruthful? Would that be full of ruth? That could be a whole new meaning though?

 

[Ben Menix]

Well, since you can be "ruthless", I would suppose you could be "ruthful". Searching frantically for Webster's 1947 Collegiate...
Ben Menix
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[SteveA]

Every day on the evening news, you hear a story about some disgruntled worker going berzerk. Don't you think the media should occasionally mention that there are millions of gruntled employees out there too - who AREN'T going berzerk?

 

[John Watson]

Reckless is therefor the opposite of reck?
Antisocial people could have a bad rectitude?
Personally, I would rue the day I laxly forbore my usual reckless jests

 

[BrianW]

When it comes to words, you guys are as ept and ert as they come. In fact, you're the eptest and ertest I've ever seen!

If I do something with impunity, does that make me imputable, or unimputable?

If you become indignant, is that because something indignifies you?

 

[brentl]

UHm me confused