Really? 'quite' modifies something to be less so? That's interesting.
And if people in the US are using 'nonplussed' to mean 'unperturbed,' they're using it wrong, because that's not what it means. I think that may be one of those things like 'droll,' which a percentage of the population persists in equating to 'dull' (or 'comprise' to 'compose') -- an error so persistent that it effectively erases the word.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
(no subject)
Date: 1/14/13 04:21 am (UTC)And if people in the US are using 'nonplussed' to mean 'unperturbed,' they're using it wrong, because that's not what it means. I think that may be one of those things like 'droll,' which a percentage of the population persists in equating to 'dull' (or 'comprise' to 'compose') -- an error so persistent that it effectively erases the word.