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To 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 l
by Joeboy 13y ago
To 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).