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disinterested means "not having a conflict of interest" not "having no interest", so I was simply trying to clarify the OP.
by Tloewald 13y ago
disinterested means "not having a conflict of interest" not "having no interest", so I was simply trying to clarify the OP.
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- Joeboy 13y agoTo clarify your clarification, people use the word "disinterested" to mean "uninterested" far more often than they use it in the "correct" sense, in the UK at least.
- corin_ 13y agoDisinterested can mean both, but uninterested can only mean the one thing, so it's possible to use uninterested incorrectly, but not disinterested
- Tloewald 13y agoI see "disinterested" used correctly quite often. This isn't like failing to use whom and using who (no-one cares). It's using whom when you should use who (because whom sounds clever).