On the disappearing antonyms of “grumpy” words

Re:On the disappearing antonyms of “grumpy” words by freefal on Sunday August 01, 2021 @10:10PM (#28032183)

Here's a fun New Yorker article that takes this to an extreme: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1994/07/25/how-i-met-my-w...

A sample: "It had been a rough day, so when I walked into the party I was very chalant, despite my efforts to appear gruntled and consolate. I was furling my wieldy umbrella for the coat check when I saw her standing alone in a corner. She was a descript person, a woman in a state of total array."

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Re:On the disappearing antonyms of “grumpy” words by shkkmo on Sunday August 01, 2021 @10:34PM (#28032315)

"furling" is clearly meant to a part of the joke, but I've spent enough time around sailors that it sounds perfectly natural to me.

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Re:On the disappearing antonyms of “grumpy” words by HWR_14 on Monday August 02, 2021 @08:33AM (#28035712)

"Furling" sounds natural because of sailing. "Wieldy" sounds natural because of RPG's love of the various forms of "wield".

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Re:On the disappearing antonyms of “grumpy” words by monkeybutton on Sunday August 01, 2021 @11:54PM (#28032701)

Somehow without any explicit connection, when I read the definition of "gruntled" the first thing that enters my mind is Tim Allen.

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