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I've seen the word "disingenuous" used many, many ways over the internet. People keep using this word, I don't think it means what most people think it means.
by julianmarq 9y ago
I've seen the word "disingenuous" used many, many ways over the internet. People keep using this word, I don't think it means what most people think it means.
Because it doesn't: "not candid or sincere, typically by pretending that one knows less about something than one really does."
There's nothing insincere about saying that newsfeed.fb.com uses vue because it does. It isn't pretending to know less, if it were false, it'd be pretending to know more.
Disingenuous doesn't mean "I don't like that this person said x", or "I like y, so I don't like that this person said a good thing, even if true, about x."
It's becoming a pet peeve.
- shaneos 9y agoConsider me schooled, thanks :-)