Admit your ignorance - things you've only just realised/learned

[Ming the Merciless]

Only with a cat inside.

And radioactive ☢️ cheese 🧀?

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

And radioactive ☢️ cheese 🧀?

Is there any other kind?

 

[Yellow Fang]

I knew Latin used the gerund, but I did not know it did not use the nominative gerund. Thus, you cannot say 'the singing'.

 

[matticus]

I knew Latin used the gerund, but I did not know it did not use the nominative gerund. Thus, you cannot say 'the singing'.

That explains why horror fiction never took off in the Roman Empire.

 

[cougie uk]

From Twitter today I have just read that Nonplussed has two definitions - one an American version and the other British - and they're opposite in meaning.

I've always thought the US version was the correct one as well. Oh the shame.

 

[cisamcgu]

That there's a little tab on You Tube that says 'Play to TV', and it does.

I'd never noticed it, and even then I assumed it wouldn't work without a dongle, but it plays via the Humax. Not sure what use it is, the Humax will show You Tube without the laptop anyway.

Flippin' heck - it's like magic !!!

 

[cougie uk]

Flippin' heck - it's like magic !!!

Works on smart tvs too.

 

[Dogtrousers]

From Twitter today I have just read that Nonplussed has two definitions - one an American version and the other British - and they're opposite in meaning.

I've always thought the US version was the correct one as well. Oh the shame.

I've just looked it up and what I thought it meant wasn't even an option - British or American.

 

[Beebo]

From Twitter today I have just read that Nonplussed has two definitions - one an American version and the other British - and they're opposite in meaning.

I've always thought the US version was the correct one as well. Oh the shame.

I thought it meant “not bothered”. Which is the US version.
The UK version means surprised and confused.

 

[Alex321]

I thought it meant “not bothered”. Which is the US version.
The UK version means surprised and confused.

I've always known the UK version. I wasn't aware it was different in the US.

 

[matticus]

I've always known the UK version. I wasn't aware it was different in the US.

I'm the exact opposite!

(is there a word for this situation? ... )

 

[Dogtrousers]

I've always known the UK version. I wasn't aware it was different in the US.

I've thought it meant "none the wiser (after learning something)". Maybe slightly puzzled as to why that something should have been of interest.

eg, "I was reading a thread about which is the best chain lube, and @Alex321 posted that gerbils are technically reptiles, which left me nonplussed"

So I have a rather precise personal definition of the word. And it's completely wrong. Or at best not very right.

 

[Tenkaykev]

I've always thought that nonplussed meant at a lost for words / puzzled🤔

 

[Dogtrousers]

These competing definitions of nonplussed have left me feeling ... er ... somewhat baffled.

 

[matticus]

" I was non-plussed to see how many CChatters were ignorant about the word non-plussed."

Hope that makes things clearer.