Bemused is more like quizzical or, um, mildly mystified than confused.
I'm not evil again. Why does everyone think that?
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brenda m - Sep 08, 2007 4:27:52 pm PDT #4753 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
brenda m - Sep 08, 2007 4:29:45 pm PDT #4754 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
That's so cool, meara. And a great send off from DC, where you've been pretty much all your adult life, no?
meara - Sep 08, 2007 4:30:42 pm PDT #4755 of 10001
And a great send off from DC, where you've been pretty much all your adult life, no?
Exactly this. I was contemplating it even if I didn't leave town, but now that I am, I definitely wanted it.
Laga - Sep 08, 2007 5:26:53 pm PDT #4756 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
OMG I suddenly know what tattoo I want. Thanks meara. I can't decide if I'm happy or scared or mad or what. I would alter the colors a bit
§ ita § - Sep 08, 2007 5:30:32 pm PDT #4757 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm so glad I knew what bemused meant. Thinking misle was a word has really scarred me.
I don't have the steel to tattoo my wrist. I originally though that's where I'd have my first one, and cover it for business when needed, but I'm way too scattered for that. I'll be sticking to torso, because when that shows in a work context I'm already in all sorts of trouble.
All that having been said, cool tat, meara!
Hil R. - Sep 08, 2007 5:33:37 pm PDT #4758 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
But if this many fairly well-read people all had the same wrong definition of "bemused," doesn't this kind of become a prescriptivist vs. descriptivist thing?
Amy - Sep 08, 2007 5:37:12 pm PDT #4759 of 10001
Because books.
I knew bemused wasn't the same as amused, but quizzically! Like ita, though, I thought misled was "mizzled" for the longest time, when I was young. I actually wish mizzled was a word.
'Course, once in high school I also spelled segue as segueway, since I'd only ever heard it spoken. Oops.
§ ita § - Sep 08, 2007 5:44:43 pm PDT #4760 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
if this many fairly well-read people all had the same wrong definition of "bemused," doesn't this kind of become a prescriptivist vs. descriptivist thing?
By "this many" we're up to, what, five? Who knows--maybe less well people (and they do have numbers) know what it means justs fine.
Hil R. - Sep 08, 2007 5:49:05 pm PDT #4761 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
OK. Merriam-Webster has "to cause to have feelings of wry or tolerant amusement" as its third definition. I feel less crazy now.
Pix - Sep 08, 2007 5:49:12 pm PDT #4762 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
I knew what bemused meant (and the shades of meaning around it), but I don't think it's a big deal to have confused it a little. Lots of times we learn words through context in books, and if we never actually look up the word it's easy to get ideas about their meanings that are slightly off the actual definition. I've discovered plenty of words that I didn't have quite right once I looked them up.