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That meaning is actually already in webster, together with "not surprised, not bothered" which is probably what the articled describes as unruffled [1]. Not su
by wongarsu 3y ago
That meaning is actually already in webster, together with "not surprised, not bothered" which is probably what the articled describes as unruffled [1].
Not sure why the article pretends like they haven't already added the "new" meaning to their dictionary. Maybe it happened after the article came out
1: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nonplussed https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nonplussed
- inanutshellus 3y agoThe "unimpressed" meaning is the primary meaning I've heard and I'm not young. They're hand-wringing over a phenomenon as old as I am, it seems.
- wongarsu 3y agoHowever the article explicitly says "we’d just like to give you fair warning in case our descriptivist nature causes us to take action" which implies that they hadn't actually taken added that meaning at the time of writing.
- aidenn0 3y agoIn case the word "plussed" came into the dictionary meaning "impressed"
- carabiner 3y ago"NOTE: The use of nonplussed to mean 'unimpressed' is an Americanism that has become increasingly common in recent decades and now appears frequently in published writing. It apparently arose from confusion over the meaning of nonplussed in ambiguous contexts, and it continues to be widely regarded as an error." Read: only dumb people use it this way.
- Davidzheng 3y agothat's not at all what they are trying to say....
- lupire 3y agoWhat do you think "dumb" means? ("struck dumb" is a synonym for "nonplussed" !)