Talk:disinterested
Add topicLatest comment: 1 year ago by Equinox
Disinterested does not mean Uninterested these are two separate words with two separate meanings confusion of the two is a common mistake. — This unsigned comment was added by 86.160.224.234 (talk).
- See our citations, which prove that it is used this way sometimes. Equinox ◑ 20:57, 9 July 2014 (UTC)
- @Equinox Hey, how would you compare the proscribed sense here to the proscribed sense of refute? I see both as serious misuse, but the refute misuse stings more to me. Do you have insight on this? Is there a difference in degree of wrongness? Geographyinitiative (talk) 18:51, 25 September 2023 (UTC) Modified
- @Geographyinitiative: Sorry to say that's not a word I encounter especially often. I think I would use it in sense 1 but probably accept sense 2 without blinking. (As for computer jargon: look at what happened to hacker and troll...) Equinox ◑ 19:27, 25 September 2023 (UTC)