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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-wife https://www.newyorker.com/magazin

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-wife 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."

shkkmo 5y ago
"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.
- HWR_14 5y ago
  "Furling" sounds natural because of sailing. "Wieldy" sounds natural because of RPG's love of the various forms of "wield".
monkeybutton 5y ago
Somehow without any explicit connection, when I read the definition of "gruntled" the first thing that enters my mind is Tim Allen.