Whelmed
"I know you can be underwhelmed, and you can be overwhelmed, but can you ever just be, like, whelmed?"Chastity [Gabrielle Union], 10 Things I Hate About You, 1999"And why, come to that, can we be overwhelmed or underwhelmed, but not semiwhelmed or--if our feelings are less pronounced--just whelmed?Bill Bryson, The Mother Tongue, 1990
As you can see, I know 10 Things I Hate About You isn't original screenwriting 'cause I looked it up. That's one of the skills that I learned in my school.
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10 things i hate about you is loosely based on "taming the shrew." boomshakalaka. boom.
That's true. I did know that. But I was kind of hoping they were just loosely adapting Shakespeare's plot, and not stealing everything in it from various sources.
Whelmed and overwhlemed both originally meant submerged in water. So you can be whelmed if you're, like, Aquaman. I guess that means underwhelmed means not submerged in water enough, like someone in a bath so shallow that their knees stick out.
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