"Mortified" - FGS it means embarrassed/humiliated

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And not desperately upset as most of MN seem to think!

I had no idea

I know that the original use of ‘disinterested’ was as a synonym for ‘uninterested’ but my heart still sinks a bit when I see modern usage of that meaning. There are times when the distinction between the two is really useful - it’s perfectly possible to be very interested in something that you have no interest in!

So disinterested is stronger? More certainly decisively not interested, and uninterested is like you haven't paid it much attention?

Disinterested is neutral and objective.
Uninterested is neither.

So uninterested is stronger?
Ie, more opposite of interested.

Kind of. More the opposite of "subjectively involved"
A teacher should be interested in their students, but disinterested in their family wealth for example.
It's used a lot in literary theory. We are supposed to understand art and literature better if we approach it with a disinterested attitude. (that's me trying to remember what I did in Theory of Aesthetics in 1988 at university and failing totally!) So, an attitude that appreciates art for art's sake rather than "euwww don't like that big splodgy painting".

I think of disinterested to be like a judge: impartial, dispassionate with no skin in the game.

Uninterested means a lack of interest in something other people are interested in.

Haitch. It really upsets me. Collective mispronunciation is not dialect.

Excited for. Ugh!

@Myimaginarycathasfleas - Haitch. It really upsets me. Collective mispronunciation is not dialect.

Hiberno-english is a dialect and has influences from the Irish language. Much of the pronunciation is affected by these. The pronunciation of haitch is part of the hiberno-english dialect, regardless of what you think.

I'm working my way through Greys Anatomy and practically everyone uses 'xxx and I' incorrectly in instances where it should be 'xxx and me'
I've noticed it a lot it drives me mad.

Excited for

Oh yes.
It seemed to appear overnight. I had never heard anyone say it and then boom everyone and their dog was 'excited for' something.

Recommend me a whatever.

I can recommend something to you or recommend you to someone.

Discreet / discrete. Argh.

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How about 'Made with love' on an advert for coffee/cakes/scones? I look at this and think, come on, it's a muffin from a factory somewhere. 'Love' means the same as it does in tennis, i.e. bugger all.

New and improved.

If you've improved it, it is by definition new, surely?

I'd argue the opposite. Something can either be new or nim proved not both

I literally agree with most of this thread.

‘New and improved’ persists because it forms a choriamb, which is a very satisfying foot (dum-di-di-dum). Sometimes pedantry has to give way to poetry

Learning all the time!

Most recently I heard someone say "depending on what size you want, depends on where you cut it"
How does that make any sense at all??
Also, on the subject of literacy Facebook et al, some gems I've seen include "babys changen tabel for sale" and "carnt" instead of "can't"

I've given up on DH with his "should of" etc. Fair enough if it's a contraction, but if that's the case you don't over-enunciate the "of"

So many posters use purposefully when they mean purposely.

Why do posters say they’re having/going on a hen doo? What’s a doo ffs?

Anything described as 'for free' - it's either 'free' or 'for nothing'. Arghh!

Also hate shortened words, such as advert for advertisement and invite for invitation.

'Laters' - what does it actually mean?