--- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Judy, I just looked up "bemusement" and it didn't mean what I thought > it did! I thought it meant "quietly amused" which is what your > picture conveyed to me. As I'm sure you know the word I used means > "confusion resulting from failure to understand". I'm glad I didn't > misunderstand a worse word or this could have been a lot funnier!
Gee, my dictionary lists three meanings for "bemused," the third being-- "to have feelings of wry or tolerant amusement" --which is what I understood you to mean. In fact, I confess I didn't know it meant "confused"; I can't recall ever encountering it in that sense. "Wry or tolerant amusement" is pretty accurate, I think, but *at myself* taking my own picture, which I found to be a very strange exercise indeed.
