it's because it kind of sounds like what people think it means
― Number None, Sunday, 31 December 2017 17:31 (six years ago) link
only if plussed meant enthusiastic
― Mordy, Sunday, 31 December 2017 17:50 (six years ago) link
it doesn't have to
― Number None, Sunday, 31 December 2017 17:50 (six years ago) link
or i guess not enthusiastic - just having any kind of reaction? it's a kinda weird association tbh. which makes me think it's maybe just confusion bc of nonchalant which means what ppl seem to think nonplussed means.
― Mordy, Sunday, 31 December 2017 17:51 (six years ago) link
I really don't think it's confusion with nonchalant
I've actually thought about this a lot
― Number None, Sunday, 31 December 2017 17:55 (six years ago) link
This was mentioned above, my pet theory is that it rhymes with "not fussed"
― Bitcoin Baja (wins), Sunday, 31 December 2017 18:11 (six years ago) link
See also ppl thinking "craven" means shameless - this is everywhere these days and I'm pretty sure it's just cause it sounds a bit like "brazen"
― Bitcoin Baja (wins), Sunday, 31 December 2017 18:12 (six years ago) link
Maybe it's something to do with all of the 'un-' words we have denoting passive states.
unconcernedunperturbedundisturbedunimpressedunemotionalunruffledunmoved
If we don't have another meaning for 'nonplussed', we're inclined to hear it as falling in this category.
― jmm, Sunday, 31 December 2017 18:13 (six years ago) link
Like "craven", tv chefs/critics etc using 'unctuous' to mean, idk, attractively oozy rather than just greasy/oily
Nonplussed dates back to Google Plus and means something you couldn't even be bothered to 'plus one' ("like")
― kinder, Sunday, 31 December 2017 19:15 (six years ago) link
also patently/blatantly although I guess that's not so bad as the intended meaning is usually the same
― kinder, Sunday, 31 December 2017 19:17 (six years ago) link
Never heard nonplussed used in that way before - lol Americans p'raps?
― Whiney Houston (Tom D.), Sunday, 31 December 2017 19:53 (six years ago) link
“happy new years”, unless it’s become 2018 and 2019 and i missed a key development
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 31 December 2017 20:00 (six years ago) link
flappy bird, that begs the question about what we're really disinterested in.
― flappy bird, Sunday, 31 December 2017 20:09 (six years ago) link
And yea apologies I just realized I’m definitely the one that brought up “nonplussed” itt p recently
― flappy bird, Sunday, 31 December 2017 20:10 (six years ago) link
Seems to me that “happy new years” incorporates the elision so well-beloved by North Americans with the confusion and imprecision so well-beloved by humans everywhere, where the "day" in "happy New Year's Day" gets chopped off and the stump, "happy New Year's" is conflated with the more general greeting, "happy New Year" often used on days that are near to, but not, January 1st.
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 31 December 2017 20:12 (six years ago) link
"unctuous" is unusual in that it's the reanimation of a medieval sense otherwise lost to cynicism: it was once a positive word, in culinary and in religious terms. in the ritual or religious sense, "unction" still maintains some of sense of the approval -- the anointment of the monarch or of the dying -- tho (this is where the cynicism comes in) the adjective seems to have become more associated with fake piety a loooong time ago
basically the problem for chefs is that they very much need a word for the approving quality, but all the ones to hand have gone negative on them: "it's really oily! but in a good way!"
― mark s, Sunday, 31 December 2017 20:15 (six years ago) link
unless it’s become 2018 and 2019 and i missed a key development
Would that mean twice as many birthday presents?
― jmm, Sunday, 31 December 2017 20:17 (six years ago) link
I think the downfall of unctuous as a positive word was when it was extended to describe a slick, flattering "oily" personality.
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 31 December 2017 20:18 (six years ago) link
i like it as a culinary term, it has good mouthfeel
― a Rambo in curved air (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 31 December 2017 20:19 (six years ago) link
Plussed, that great term we all use
Also language evolves
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Sunday, 31 December 2017 20:20 (six years ago) link
omg...
― flappy bird, Sunday, 31 December 2017 20:26 (six years ago) link
Where it all went wrong for nonplus was in the verbing. “Reduced to a nonplus” much less likely to be, uh, confused
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 31 December 2017 20:31 (six years ago) link
Now that is lol Americans.
― Whiney Houston (Tom D.), Sunday, 31 December 2017 21:18 (six years ago) link
figured it was an apostrophe as in "Happy New Year's..." as in "Happy New Year's Eve"
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 31 December 2017 22:28 (six years ago) link
still shit
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 31 December 2017 22:30 (six years ago) link
nobody says “merry christ”
it's already an elision of Christ's Mass
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 31 December 2017 22:46 (six years ago) link
“merry mass” would make more sense then
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 31 December 2017 23:14 (six years ago) link
"data detox"
― kolakube (Ross), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 18:51 (six years ago) link
oof haven't heard that one yet, my sympathies
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 19:07 (six years ago) link
all the data ones are bad
― marcos, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 19:09 (six years ago) link
"data wrangler"
ffs
― kolakube (Ross), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 19:11 (six years ago) link
big databig agbig pharmabig oilbig tobacco
― marcos, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 19:13 (six years ago) link
big hair
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 19:18 (six years ago) link
"normies"
― Monster fatberg (Phil D.), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 19:32 (six years ago) link
failson
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 19:36 (six years ago) link
3 days behind
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 19:38 (six years ago) link
oooo word, well it bears repeating
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 19:45 (six years ago) link
seems antithetical
― Evan, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 20:06 (six years ago) link
lol ok otm
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 20:07 (six years ago) link
idk
Seems kinda like there could be a hiatus on dudes/bros for a while when used as short
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Sunday, 7 January 2018 00:05 (six years ago) link
hand for dislike of men
idk tho
phantom submit there dudes btw
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Sunday, 7 January 2018 00:06 (six years ago) link
a balmy _____ degrees
― marcos, Monday, 8 January 2018 21:50 (six years ago) link
Glamping.
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 8 January 2018 21:57 (six years ago) link
Nicknames for Donald Trump
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 23:42 (six years ago) link
45 scoops of cheetos
― how's life, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 23:56 (six years ago) link
Truth bomb.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 23:59 (six years ago) link
lame trump nicknames should be a given at this point
― very stabbable gaius (wins), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 00:06 (six years ago) link
1/2 term, two scoops, Drumpf, 45, Tr*mp, Cheetos and variations... grow the fuck up. is it really that hard to deal with? it's been a year
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 00:16 (six years ago) link