One for the life list!

[krait]

I believe that this is the first time I've ever seen the nonplussed-nonchalant confusion error!

I've often seen it mentioned on lists of commonly misused words, but have never encountered it in the wild before now. :D

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All I see is "laying" ;__;

[blnchflr]

I don't think they mean nonchalant at all - the dog is closer to nonplussed than to nonchalant. I think they mean nonplussed, they've just never seen the dictionary definition, so they've assigned meaning from previous context. I know what they mean? (And it's not nonchalant).

"Laying", however, bugs the fuck out of me, but judging by the prevalence of occurances in TW fic, semantic shift has already occured, and my cause is lost :(