i think i'm ready to die on the hill of people misusing enthused
enthused doesn't mean enthusiastic
like, why would there be an identical word with the same use? it's not just the cuter shorter version
"he was enthusiastic about the idea" yeah!
"he was enthused about the idea" nO
it's not a cuter short word
enthuse is a VERB
when you infodump on something you are ENTHUSING about it.
when i talk to you about morrowind modding for 2 hours that is me enthusing over morrowind modding, because I am enthusiastic about it
i can be fine with language changing, but we dont' really have a word that does what enthuse, in its actual definition, does
please, please save enthuse. it's a word you want to use every day. when you do your autism infodumping on something that's you ENTHUSING on it. we got such a cute perfect word for it and you're putting it to work in its brother's job and it hates that!














