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Um, you need to your comments as SPOILER please. ;)
04/26/09
"The correct spelling is actually bated breath but it's so common these days to see it written as baited breath that there's every chance that it will soon become the usual form, to the disgust of conservative speakers and the confusion of dictionary writers."
[www.worldwidewords.org]
04/26/09
Like the word, nonplussed. It can now mean that you are unaffected or that you can't handle any more.... I use it all the time to confuse my friends!
04/26/09
04/26/09
Um... no it doesn't. It means what it means and nothing more. What's silly is that people continue to use words incorrectly, and think that it is okay to do so. If I hear the word used incorrectly, I think "this person should take a remedial English class so they don't sound like a dumbass".
04/26/09
04/26/09
In my part of North America, "nonplussed" has since the day I was born been used to mean totally indifferent to, or unperturbed about a situation.
I understand it also means "totally confused about something" but nobody around here ever uses it in that fashion. Like it or not language is a dynamic and mobile thing. Words change, definitions change, all based on useage. You can try to fight it but it accomplishes nothing and just makes you look like some sort of fucking insecure language nazi who's using the fact that he owns a fucking reference book to cover up for his intellectual insecurities.
Don't try to tell me I'm wrong about it when I'm just relating the fact that in my part of the world, this is how the word is used.
04/08/09
I am loving this trend of Trek-vets on modern Sci-Fi shows. Quick, somebody cast Patrick Stewart!
04/08/09