befuddlement

Ease with which non-words of utter boardroom befuddlement spill out of their mouths. And so on...

Granted, this still earns me a look of befuddlement, but it's the easiest explanation I can come up with.

I see you are not, yet this is how strongly my mind sits in a state of vast befuddlement. ID theft has been international news, countless laws exist to protect ID, identity.

My second criticism is my befuddlement. I just can't figure out what most of the celebrity pundits are saying.

Again, stuff I have read suggests my befuddlement is hardly unique. If it helps you enormously to know the company name, you have some kind of advantage over me.

I'll bet most, if not all of the best sysadmins in the world would be in utter befuddlement if someone in their office was using a simple "idle" iphone as a keylogger. It's so out there that it'll make you think you're going crazy: the perfect crime.

Just try to imagine the befuddlement of a bunch of early ‘90s journalism majors who have just been seated in front of Unix workstations. No matter what you imagine, I guarantee the reality was worse.

I was simply responding to the befuddlement that the industry prefers languages that adapt ideas slowly, rather than those that are cutting-edge.

That isn't my approach, and I think it's also not the approach of the people who, much to your befuddlement, keep upvoting this story and tweeting positively about the post.

Hard" for someone with no experience is almost always not "intellectually difficult", its simply befuddlement.

Experience with only dynamically typed functional languages might lead to befuddlement in some places, but a reader who has come to understand Scheme deeply will probably be fine." Then it is not for me, I am still struggling with Haskell.

I am befuddled by your befuddlement. Consumer protection laws regularly put limits on the freedom of contracts between companies and consumers.

Random notion: Your reply reminded of Apple dabbling with automotive stuff and the general befuddlement about that effort. It now occurs to me that Apple may be sizing up becoming the software stack provider to the car mfgs cannot write their own.

Against a background of shock and befuddlement that this had happened to an essentially benign US by an unknown extra national entity, the main question that followed was as to why the US was hated that much. It was simply incomprehensible to the audience.

The author talks about reactions of physicians dismissing convincing data — the befuddlement and dismissals — and it's the same reaction athletes and coaches give when they're part of some of a controlled trial.

Others expressed befuddlement and the firm's inability to rectify the trading error for a full 45 minutes." Now all that was immediately after the screwup, but it's hard to imagine it getting better without a perception that the people managing their operations were replaced with people worthy of trust.

If you can film this someday and edit it down into something watchable, I would be interested to see the stages of confusion, befuddlement, anger, acceptance, release, but I don't know if you can film border guards either.

I suspect most misuses are from people who've heard or seen a word they weren't familiar with, failed to understand or research the meaning or part of speech, believe using it will imbue some much needed gravitas to their communication, and then expect the world to adopt their befuddlement. As we seem to agree, the ultimate outcome of all this is a weakened language for sophisticated users.

I think he is using a writing style which emphasizes with different view points, namely seasoned programmers and their befuddlement with normal user's inefficient tools, and the normal users' befuddlement with the seasoned programmers seemingly arcane tools that seemingly accomplish the same things that their prettier, more easy to use tools already do.