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Agree. Most English people at least would be nonplussed if you said "etsy etsy" rather than "etcetra etcetra" to indicate something that goes on and on.
by KineticLensman 6y ago
Agree. Most English people at least would be nonplussed if you said "etsy etsy" rather than "etcetra etcetra" to indicate something that goes on and on.
- philwelch 6y agoAmerican here and I say “et cetera” when I mean “et cetera”, but /etc is “etsy”.
- glitchcrab 6y agoThat makes a little more sense. /etc is e-t-c for me, but I may be in the minority there.
- dingaling 6y agoMost UK English speakers would be confused if you used 'nonplussed' to mean confused... Human languages are hugely inefficient!
- OJFord 6y agoDo you mean AmE speakers? Because 'confused' is (roughly) what it means to me, a BrE speaker, but your comment made me curious and indeed Wiktionary gives def 2 (proscribed, US, informal) as 'unfazed, unaffected, or unimpressed' instead.