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Reminds me of how nonplussed has been redefined to mean the opposite of its original meaning. Fine for the language to evolve but we need to stop that sort of t
by Gimpei 7y ago
Reminds me of how nonplussed has been redefined to mean the opposite of its original meaning. Fine for the language to evolve but we need to stop that sort of thing. It's super confusing now whenever someone uses nonplussed. Which meaning are they using?
- taneq 7y agoYeah, sadly most people could care less and it’s literally the worst.
- antisemiotic 7y agocomprised of
- taneq 7y agosupposably comprised of.
- nerdponx 7y agoDefinately.
- dredmorbius 7y agoI get that alot.
- JetezLeLogin 7y agoits
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- chrismorgan 7y agoAn Australian, I was nonplussed by this claim, so I had to look it up. And indeed, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nonplussed#Adjective https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nonplussed#Adjective: > Bewildered; unsure how to respond or act. [from 17th c.] > (proscribed, US, informal) Unfazed, unaffected, or unimpressed. [from 20th c.] Huh. And then https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#proscribed https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#proscribed is fun. But then, both “nonplussed” and “proscribed” are weird words where if you used them in a sentence and asked someone unfamiliar with them to guess their meaning they’d tend to guess quite the wrong direction. Something like this: “I guess ‘nonplussed’ means ‘not plussed’ like… not… benefited by? And ‘proscribed’, ‘pro-’ means in favour of and ‘scribed’ means written, so I suppose it means this is the way you should write it.”
- nerdponx 7y agoNative speaker here, I actually had no idea people used "nonplussed" to mean "unfazed".