Uncomfortability: The act of making another extremely anxious or upset.
It might be news to some, but Kelly Slater, an eleven-time world surfing champion and still in the conversation, as they say, even as he nears fifty, has a formidable intellect.
“I think I finished with a 4.6 GPA, and I didn’t even give it my all,” Kelly said of high school, a grade point average that would impressive any Ivy League admissions officer.
Yesterday, in a stinging essay, it was reported that Kelly had disfigured the English language by describing his relationship with John John Florence as having “a level of uncomfortability.”
Wrote John Miskelly, “Maybe not content with inventing large aspects of the world of modern surfing both within the performance of the sport itself as well as being a one-man motor for the commercialisation of surfing, Kelly is now taking it on himself to reconfigure the conventionalisms of the English language itself.”
Understanding Uncomfortability in Modern Language
Well.
As revealed by a scholar in an email to BeachGrit earlier today, and using the Rice University Neologism database to prove his case, it was Kelly who must enjoy the last laugh.
Uncomfortability: The act of making another extremely anxious or upset. The word ‘uncomfortability’ was formed by blending the adjective ‘uncomfortable’ and the noun ‘ability’ in order to yield a word that meant ‘the skill to make another uneasy or upset’, very similar to the formation of ‘stretchability’ (from the clothing industry). It was coined to replace a phrase, like ‘efforts to annoy’ or something similar, with one word, making it much catchier and easier to remember. It is not particularly formal since it is a neologism, but it does not have an informal connotation and could really be used by anyone in a wide variety of circumstances.
BeachGrit extends an unreserved apology to Mr Slater, who is currently holidaying in Bali, Indonesia.
FFS. Go back to school. Or get a dictionary. Think he has swallowed to much salt water.Sorry Kelly the word is Uncomfortability. He would have no chance of saying Supercalafragilisticexpealadoshous.
Kelly claims a 4.6 GPA at a public school in rural florida that he rarely attended as evidence of his intelligence? How much better could he have done had he attended?
Just be the best surfer in the world and stop crawling through the mud of your social media. Show your intelligence.
I emailed Kelly — through channels, through his people – and told him that Beachgrit had issued an “unreserved apology.”
He responded – quicker than usual: “Who?”
If I was the GOAT of UNCOMFORTABILITY then I would probably not be involved in a clothing brand …. ?
Wear UNCOMFORTABILITY now ….. leaves me comfortably … numb ?
I think this is important for Chas.
It’s never too late to take your lingestic degree back to 7- eleven and demand a refund!
Miss Kelly misses Kelly.
But he’s not here so who cares.
Kelly misses Miss Kelly, but who cares because he’s not here😏
Flow rida man using the big words
I’m just surprised academics read BG.
I get constantly peer reviewed by my wife. She says I’m a fucking cunt.
You should plagiarize giving a shit.
You should go take a shit for plagiarizing
She’s right
C’mon man! That was at the top of my Google search. They don’t be a-peddlin’ no such disinformation you dog faced pony soldier, c’mon man…eeeeburp.
The only one who should be apologising is John The Wrong.
Maybe it was actually Kahlils ex-girlfriends cousin Johnny Wong…
With nobody here picking up on this inaccuracy, it’s really pulled back the veil on the belief that the average BeachGrit commentator is a non-surfing intellectually superior being.
Now it’s just non-surfing idiots.
You can’t tell most of the dopes on here anything.
For example most here still believe Covid is real and Kamala is a good idea
I’m welllllll left of you bexy, and a medico hence my views on covid, but I’ll respectfully give you 1/2 for that. Kamala ain’t all that…. tulsi ftw.
Im now also a Tulsi fan after observing and hearing what she says.
She should hop over to the Reps, she’s too sensible for the Dems
Just because a quack from ‘Nasi U’ says it’s so doesn’t mean it’s completely true though Negs.
Surely we should wait for confirmation from an Oxford professor before a final decision and apology is made…
My shitty Haiku
Have seventeen syllables
When given my all
Because the article was lame.
Oh! you didn’t like it?
Like what?
What part of his comment gave it away 😏
I don’t care if any of you surf! I’m here for the high quality banter, and inaccurate information. Chas/Derek are some twisted mf’s, with an entertaining as f media outlet. Less people in the water is perfect. I hope everybody that doesn’t surf owns 5 boards, 3 wetsuits, 2 sets of booties, and so on. Capitalism baby! Buy stuff, pose with it on your “look at me website”, and leave it in the closet!
Finally someone with some common sense, well said, and from this Metal Surfer in Santa Cruz CA I say if you don’t surf don’t start and if you do surf never stop 🏄
Please knock off the emojiis. We care about aesthetics down here in the dingy basement where comments live. Emojiis look like shite and are truly an abhorrent form of written communication. Thanks in advance.
No its cause we’re not grammar police nerds.
Ive wanted to use that word myself but everyone here would have thought I was a dumb unit.
It’s the perception that counts, not the fact
irregardless of weather its right or wrong, we shouldnt of made fun of his grammar.
That’s a very unique take.
tooshay!
https://www.youtube.com/wat…
We are Jennifer Garner
He should run for Pres
I’m siri us.
Your not being serious, shirley
Shirley you must be kidding,🤔 or is it surely you must be kidding, 🤗surely you must know Shirley 😏
Who be making you da grammar Popo, I be saying what ever I be fillin, feelin, filling, feeling, felling, ah you know what I be trying to say 🤪
That’s the Bex Paradox. If I believe Bex who is the idiot?
I bet he’s one of those cunts who could’ve got into uni if he wanted but he still has to call an electrician around to change a light bulb. I can imagine him weeping with frustration while trying to decipher the instructions to put together his NutriBullet while his girlfriend berates him in Chinese/American (which is actually just English). Well done on memorising the useless shit they teach you in school, Kelly. That makes you very clever matey. Suck my 4.6inch choad you cunt.
Poor Kelly, being called Kerrry must be trying on the patience.
https://youtu.be/vWdnI4lZIN8
Shut the F#@K up you little “WEENIE” literally, now go back to looking for your tweezers so you can take a piss 🤓
Are u related to that DICKHEAD Dave Hester off Storage Wars ?
Sounds like it.
Ahhh… have we met? Damn… it’s like looking in a mirror. (Not afraid to know what i don’t know. My dads a chippie and can fix anything. The skills with the hands skipped me….)
Upon investigation into this latest Kahlil scandal I found an intriguiging fact about Rice University.
Through a Google search it shows that Rice is ranked 89th in the QS (Quacquarelli Symonds) global rankings.
Until it makes a global ‘CT’ school ranking perhaps the apology should be placed on hold.
Especially as the first five letters of Quacquarelli is pronounced ‘quack’…
No doubt. Derek coulda squeezed a Dirty Water appearance with an offer of an on-air drippy apologizannoya’dbility
Rice is also a favoured staple of the Chinese. I think Kelly is working for them. He has been hired to improve their global image. I heard he has an office where you can smoke at your desk but have to leave your slippers at the door located at 2nd Floor, Unit D, Office 12A, Room 2502, Building F1, TCL Science Park East, No. 11249 to 48392 Wanbo 2nd Road, Nancun Town, Panyu District, Guangzhou. Apparently you can’t miss it.
Incredible girls wander the foyer there, ice cold but warm to the touch.
“BINGO”
Other sources bring to question the veracity of Kelly’s 4.6 GPA claim.
http://sam.rhodes.tripod.co…
Chris Cote claims it was a 5.40
Don’t get dls started on it, I’ll never wash my hair again
I wouldn’t trust that article, says he only has one brother. Wonder where that rumor that he has a degree in Australian criminal law came from?
Probably cause his contract with Quiksilver was downright criminal.
How so?
It lasted 23 freakin’ years. What surfer/sponsor contract can possibly last that long with such legal ease? /s
I wonder why , if he Kelly is so smart , (possibly the rain man of competitive surfing , if the heat is related in anyway to help him win a title ) , didn’t ask for shares in Quik , stock options etc when Quik was a shooting star of the Surf Business during Kelly’s Reign at the top from 91 till 2006 ? Did Mr KWOK really make 50 million selling his part ?
No it was more like 49 1/2 million
Ok thanks Mike for the clarification and / or piss take ? Both are acceptable …. and welcomed .
He absolutely did get equity in Quikky. It was widely reported that he had as much as 3% in the brand. He took the shares in exchanged for a World Title bonus. He was not dumb. What he did with the shares before they tanked however is not publicly known.
Thanks 8888 . Any idea what that 3% was worth in 2007 before the Bubble Burst ?
Criminology isn’t it? What’s a degree in criminology lead to? Anyone got one? Wonder if he did a degree or slid through on a diploma while bigging it up as more. Probs got a Hecs debt to pay.
Australia 😏