• ctrlaltdelight@lemmy.zip
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    12 days ago

    I really really love the sentiment of this. Don’t play it cool. But I also really really love how there are negative words that don’t have a positive counterpart. I’m gruntled.

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      12 days ago

      It’s from a French word, and the part that is being non-'d is ultimately from a Latin verb ‘to get hot’ (“Calere”).

      So is just a fancy way of saying coolly