Swimmers

[89th]

[Jolly]

You have to go out. You don't have to come back.

[Jolly]

That's from my first cousin, retired Coastie.

[Aqua Letifer]

FOUNDERING. Not floundering. FFS.

[Horace]

@Aqua-Letifer said in Swimmers:

FOUNDERING. Not floundering. FFS.

My favorite context for that word is in its verbed noun form. E.g “serial entrepreneurs often engage in foundering”. It rolls off the tongue, and really impresses people.

[89th]

@Aqua-Letifer said in Swimmers:

FOUNDERING. Not floundering. FFS.

Wouldn’t that depend if the boat was totally disabled or if it was still trying to move? I can’t tell in the video if the boat’s engines are dead or not.

[Aqua Letifer]

@89th said in Swimmers:

@Aqua-Letifer said in Swimmers:

FOUNDERING. Not floundering. FFS.

Wouldn’t that depend if the boat was totally disabled or if it was still trying to move? I can’t tell in the video if the boat’s engines are dead or not.

"Floundering" would mean acting and moving like a flounder. Which would mean wriggling back and forth violently and incessantly while trying to free yourself from a line.

Flounders don't bob and sway lazily on the surface waiting to be rescued.

It's fucking foundering.

[Doctor Phibes]

@Aqua-Letifer said in Swimmers:

@89th said in Swimmers:

@Aqua-Letifer said in Swimmers:

FOUNDERING. Not floundering. FFS.

Wouldn’t that depend if the boat was totally disabled or if it was still trying to move? I can’t tell in the video if the boat’s engines are dead or not.

"Floundering" would mean acting and moving like a flounder. Which would mean wriggling back and forth violently and incessantly while trying to free yourself from a line.

Flounders don't bob and sway lazily on the surface waiting to be rescued.

It's fucking foundering.

From Meriam Webster:

Flounder is a relatively common verb that current evidence dates to the late 16th century, when it was likely born by means of an alteration of an older verb, founder. The two have been confused ever since. Today, founder is most often used as a synonym of fail, or, in the case of a waterborne vessel, as a word meaning "to fill with water and sink." Formerly, it was also frequently applied when a horse stumbled badly and was unable to keep walking. It's likely this sense of founder led to the original and now-obsolete meaning of flounder: "to stumble." In modern use, flounder typically means "to struggle" or "to act clumsily"; the word lacks the finality of founder, which usually denotes complete collapse or failure, as that of a sunken ship.

[Aqua Letifer]

@Doctor-Phibes said in Swimmers:

@Aqua-Letifer said in Swimmers:

@89th said in Swimmers:

@Aqua-Letifer said in Swimmers:

FOUNDERING. Not floundering. FFS.

Wouldn’t that depend if the boat was totally disabled or if it was still trying to move? I can’t tell in the video if the boat’s engines are dead or not.

"Floundering" would mean acting and moving like a flounder. Which would mean wriggling back and forth violently and incessantly while trying to free yourself from a line.

Flounders don't bob and sway lazily on the surface waiting to be rescued.

It's fucking foundering.

From Meriam Webster:

Flounder is a relatively common verb that current evidence dates to the late 16th century, when it was likely born by means of an alteration of an older verb, founder. The two have been confused ever since. Today, founder is most often used as a synonym of fail, or, in the case of a waterborne vessel, as a word meaning "to fill with water and sink." Formerly, it was also frequently applied when a horse stumbled badly and was unable to keep walking. It's likely this sense of founder led to the original and now-obsolete meaning of flounder: "to stumble." In modern use, flounder typically means "to struggle" or "to act clumsily"; the word lacks the finality of founder, which usually denotes complete collapse or failure, as that of a sunken ship.

Do you think I've never looked that up before?

[Rainman]

Yeah well, in the second video, the boat flipped over.
Or maybe it fipped over.
Or fipped up?
Stupid language, it's like there is a different word for everything.

[George K]

"Founder" in an equine context is still used.

[Copper]

Link to video

[jon-nyc]

And the douchebag just stood there on the stern instead of jumping in. Idiot.

[89th]

@Aqua-Letifer said in Swimmers:

@89th said in Swimmers:

@Aqua-Letifer said in Swimmers:

FOUNDERING. Not floundering. FFS.

Wouldn’t that depend if the boat was totally disabled or if it was still trying to move? I can’t tell in the video if the boat’s engines are dead or not.

"Floundering" would mean acting and moving like a flounder. Which would mean wriggling back and forth violently and incessantly while trying to free yourself from a line.

Flounders don't bob and sway lazily on the surface waiting to be rescued.

It's fucking foundering.

I’d agree with that, the boat (regardless of engines) was just floating there like an obese person in a wave pool. I also didn’t know of flounder vs founder.