Images 14: Holidays and other strangeness

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Build and gifted to the USA by the French government.

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[DHBirr]

In utter seriousness, however, and much though I'm appalled at the thought of agreeing with anything Schmucker said, an ordinary non-supremacist white person could become a victim of "friendly fire" in the war against white supremacists.   I think it was Rob Kelk who remarked on the forum, just a week or so ago, that he has much the same skin color as the typical MAGAts. That doesn't mean the war shouldn't be fought; rather the opposite.

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I'm a very forgiving person ... on Lord Vader's terms.  "Apology accepted, Captain."

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Alternate caption for that last one: "Sometimes the untraveled path is untraveled for a reason."

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[Labster]

Ahem.  The only place?

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First they came for the white supremacists, then they came for the skinheads, and finally, when they came for the Neo-Nazis, there was no one left to complain about the other racists getting arrested.

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[Black Aeronaut]

Huh.  I never really thought of it that way.  But yeah.  This would be why it's considered mental illness - it's a legitimate impairment and you need actual help, and not just therapy.

Suddenly, a lot of shit about the Took family make so much more sense.

Speaking as one of these people: Yeah, but it doesn't give you license to be a fucking asshole.  I'm doing what I can with what I got, but I'm not running a charity here.  I'm working.  You wanna change things up?  Start by voting Democrat, or at least vote only for Republicans who actually want to make life better for us.

I present Exhibit A: Fox News...

Yeah, pretty much like I said in the thing about tipping...

.... Huh. Gonna have to see if I can spot more words like this.

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.... Huh.  Gonna have to see if I can spot more words like this.

That also implies the existence of the verb "to gruntle", meaning "to please, to satisfy"... you would expect to find it in older works, like maybe Shakespeare, but honestly I've never come across it.

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[DHBirr]

.... Huh.  Gonna have to see if I can spot more words like this.

That also implies the existence of the verb "to gruntle", meaning "to please, to satisfy"...  you would expect to find it in older works, like maybe Shakespeare, but honestly I've never come across it.

According to my Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition (1993), the earliest print usage of "gruntle" (in the above sense) the compilers were able to find dated to 1926.  This dictionary states that "gruntle" is a back-formation from "disgruntle" (first print example dated 1682) ... however, under "disgruntle" in the same dictionary I find an earlier "gruntle," lacking a separate entry but explained as originally a Middle-English verb-form for "grunt" which came to be more-or-less synonymous with "grumble." 

It's not made clear how adding "dis-" to a word meaning "grumble" modified it to what we today have in mind when we say "disgruntle."  But one less-commonly-used meaning of "dis-" seems to be "completely" – the example given is that to "disannul" something doesn't negate annulment, instead apparently adding emphasis to annulment. 

More information than anybody wanted or needed:  just another disservice I nit-pickingly provide.

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Up, lad, up!  We've villages to pillage, maidens to slay, and dragons to rescue!

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[Labster]

.... Huh.  Gonna have to see if I can spot more words like this.

That also implies the existence of the verb "to gruntle", meaning "to please, to satisfy"...  you would expect to find it in older works, like maybe Shakespeare, but honestly I've never come across it.

According to my Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition (1993), the earliest print usage of "gruntle" (in the above sense) the compilers were able to find dated to 1926.  This dictionary states that "gruntle" is a back-formation from "disgruntle" (first print example dated 1682) ... however, under "disgruntle" in the same dictionary I find an earlier "gruntle," lacking a separate entry but explained as originally a Middle-English verb-form for "grunt" which came to be more-or-less synonymous with "grumble." 

It's not made clear how adding "dis-" to a word meaning "grumble" modified it to what we today have in mind when we say "disgruntle."  But one less-commonly-used meaning of "dis-" seems to be "completely" – the example given is that to "disannul" something doesn't negate annulment, instead apparently adding emphasis to annulment. 

More information than anybody wanted or needed:  just another disservice I nit-pickingly provide.

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Up, lad, up!  We've villages to pillage, maidens to slay, and dragons to rescue!

Some of the comments on this Language Log entry discuss “gruntled”, with an opinion offered by no less a personage than Justice Antonin Scalia. Hopefully, you won’t be so misgruntled now.