2007-11-06 12:53:25 · 7 answers · asked by fresh2 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
please ask a question that was not a quote from a movie.
thank you very much.
2007-11-06 15:58:29 · answer #1 · answered by Brenda 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, being whelmed is like when you're at work, and everything is going along at a nice even pace that you can keep up without any extra effort and you start thinking "wow, this is not too easy and it's not too hard, it's just right". It's like when the little girl was testing out the three bears' beds and she got in the one that was "just right". She was whelmed.
2007-11-07 02:19:11 · answer #2 · answered by j c 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, if you explored the etymology of the word, you'd discover that to "whelm," is to cover with water. So the phrase built around this idea of being "overwhelmed," or being drowned by too much sensory input, issues, etc.
So yes, you can be whelmed, but no one will know what the **#$@ you're talking about!
2007-11-06 21:19:39 · answer #3 · answered by damlovash 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I suppose it is an acceptable form of saying "react" in different circumstances as long as you don't "just react". So as you can say "I am overwhelmed", you are overreacting within the socially acceptable. You are simply surprised in a good way or you are bombarded by an exaggerated situation...
2007-11-06 21:04:47 · answer #4 · answered by snakker2k 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
–verb (used with object)
1. to submerge; engulf.
2. to overcome utterly; overwhelm: whelmed by misfortune.
–verb (used without object)
3. to roll or surge over something, as in becoming submerged.
[Origin: 1250–1300; ME whelme, appar. b. dial. whelve (OE gehwelfan to bend over) and helm2 (v.) (OE helmian to cover)]
2007-11-06 21:20:39 · answer #5 · answered by shotindustries 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you can in Europe.
2007-11-06 21:00:15 · answer #6 · answered by mcq316 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
What kind of retarded-*** question is that?
2007-11-06 20:57:35 · answer #7 · answered by iamjustbored10 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋