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Re: Ostensibly Hoops

Post by hedge » Fri Mar 25, 2016 2:40 pm

Of late nonplussed has been used by some (many?) people to mean unperturbed. Language being what it is, meanings of words change all the time. I am not here to judge, I was just trying to make sure nobody misunderstood what I was saying if they were amongst the parties that favor the newer usage, although it should've been clear from the context. This is a particularly perplexing case, however, in that the newer usage is the exact opposite of the standard usage. I would guess that most words that evolve in their meanings would do so by degrees, not 180 degrees in one fell swoop. I'm kinda nonplussed about it...
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Post by AlabamAlum » Fri Mar 25, 2016 2:50 pm

I refuse to live in a world where nonplussed doesn't mean 'confused'. Informal word drift and bastardization due to people using words they do not know the definition to be damned. DAMNED!
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Post by eCat » Fri Mar 25, 2016 3:21 pm

non plussed means confused?

that explains a lot about my encounters with women now
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Re: Ostensibly Hoops

Post by Bklyn » Fri Mar 25, 2016 3:33 pm

I believe in pedantry.
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Post by AlabamAlum » Fri Mar 25, 2016 3:38 pm

Oh, I don't think that being cautious to avoid word drift due to ignorance is pedantic. If anything, it is appropriately cromulent.


Anyway, nonplussed is best described as that surprised/confused expression you get on your face when you don't know what to do or say.

Like the time a woman in front of me was going through TSA and they made her do a bag inspection and she pulled put a dildo. I stood there with a dumb look on my face and was wondering why she carried that in a carry on, and was this a protest, and, hey she is kinda cute, wonder if I should say something to her, and are we on the same flight, etc, etc...but I didn't speak any of those thoughts...I just stood there dumbfounded.
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Post by Bklyn » Fri Mar 25, 2016 3:45 pm

Lmao
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Post by eCat » Fri Mar 25, 2016 4:13 pm

AlabamAlum wrote:Oh, I don't think that being cautious to avoid word drift due to ignorance is pedantic. If anything, it is appropriately cromulent.


Anyway, nonplussed is best described as that surprised/confused expression you get on your face when you don't know what to do or say.

Like the time a woman in front of me was going through TSA and they made her do a bag inspection and she pulled put a dildo. I stood there with a dumb look on my face and was wondering why she carried that in a carry on, and was this a protest, and, hey she is kinda cute, wonder if I should say something to her, and are we on the same flight, etc, etc...but I didn't speak any of those thoughts...I just stood there dumbfounded.
I would have said something

no idea what but my first instinct would be to say "I can't follow that"
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Post by AlabamAlum » Fri Mar 25, 2016 4:57 pm

I started to, I really did, but I just couldn't...
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Post by crotch » Fri Mar 25, 2016 5:14 pm

Would love to see UNC absolutely destsroy UI tonight.. only time in my life I've openly rooted for the heels.

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Post by eCat » Fri Mar 25, 2016 5:15 pm

crotch wrote:Would love to see UNC absolutely destsroy UI tonight.. only time in my life I've openly rooted for the heels.

no way

UNC needs to go down

IU won't make it to the title game
I like the stinky pinky but only up to the first knuckle, I do not want a GD thumb up there--I've told her multiple times and I always catch her when she tries to pull a fast one---it's my butthole for Chrissakes I'm gonna know--so cut out the BS.

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Re: Ostensibly Hoops

Post by hedge » Fri Mar 25, 2016 8:18 pm

Crotch is old enough to appreciate ancient enmities (that's from Shakespeare, i.e., Crotch's coeval). But eCat keeps his eye on the current prize.
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Re: Ostensibly Hoops

Post by hedge » Fri Mar 25, 2016 8:25 pm

Whoops, not quite...

Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
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Post by AlabamAlum » Fri Mar 25, 2016 8:28 pm

"Heat not a furnace for your own foe so hot that it do singe yourself."

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Post by AlabamAlum » Fri Mar 25, 2016 8:30 pm

And another of my favs: "Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems" (Henry V)
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Re: Ostensibly Hoops

Post by eCat » Fri Mar 25, 2016 8:41 pm

AlabamAlum wrote:And another of my favs: "Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems" (Henry V)
he never met BRM
I like the stinky pinky but only up to the first knuckle, I do not want a GD thumb up there--I've told her multiple times and I always catch her when she tries to pull a fast one---it's my butthole for Chrissakes I'm gonna know--so cut out the BS.

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Post by AlabamAlum » Fri Mar 25, 2016 8:44 pm

DAMN!
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Re: Ostensibly Hoops

Post by Bklyn » Fri Mar 25, 2016 8:57 pm

Well done, sir.
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Re: Ostensibly Hoops

Post by hedge » Fri Mar 25, 2016 9:30 pm

You like the Henry"s...
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Re: Ostensibly Hoops

Post by hedge » Fri Mar 25, 2016 9:32 pm

According to the odds tracker, Notre Dame should not have won that game....
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Re: Ostensibly Hoops

Post by hedge » Fri Mar 25, 2016 9:33 pm

BRM = Falstaff
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