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inanutshellus on April 29, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: What's Going on with ‘Nonplussed’? (2017)

The "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 on April 29, 2024 [–]

However 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 on April 29, 2024 | [–]

In case the word "plussed" came into the dictionary meaning "impressed"

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