- alexanderwales (under alias cthulhuraejepsen)
- alexanderwales (under alias cthulhuraejepsen)
Typos here, please.
- ToaKraka
The doe seemed entirely disinterested in this monologue
*uninterested
- alexanderwales
Is there a reason you think that disinterested is incorrect there?
- ToaKraka
I don't think that it makes any sense to describe a person as seeming disinterested in response to visual inspection. A person can seem uninterested very easily (
The doe gave no impression that she'd heard me aside from a flick of the ear.)—but I find it impossible to imagine, for example, a judge who seems disinterested when I look at him. (Obviously, a judge may seem disinterested in response to a financial or social audit—but that's not what the story is describing.)A lack of material interest cannot be discerned from a person's demeanor.
- alexanderwales
Alright, so your objection is that disinterested should exclusively be used to mean impartial. Got it. For the record, this is the sort of typo correction that I find incredibly grating, and I'm not going to be changing it.
The absolute state of English… sigh.