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0 pointsljm4y ago0 comments

I like 'sublime' for that. It sounds like an object could have three states: lime, sublime, and superlime.

Something that is sublime would somehow be inferior to its lime counterpart. Like everything has an innate limeness.

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My favorite is "why is no one ever whelmed?". I've seen this many times in popular culture over the years. People get overwhelmed and underwhelmed but no one ever seems to just get whelmed, even though it's really the same thing as overwhelmed.

gota4y ago

Apparently it could have been like that, as it comes from 'sub'+'limen' ("threshold")

Disclaimer: I just googled "sublime etymology"

twic4y ago

Subb! I suggest you make a backmal undertological antiposal about this.

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