more grammar/ word usage venting

[wren_kt7oz]

Two quick things that I've come across multiple times in the last week (I'm back from my travels but have a cold/ flu thingy that has kept me pretty much out of action ever since I got back).

Illusive/ elusiveThe word you are looking for is nearly always "elusive", which means hard to find or achieve. "Illusive" means deceptive or illusory. It's

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[bksbracelet]

Hear hear 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 However I do wonder at times when I am reading if spell check is to blame.

[wren_kt7oz]

Auto-correct? I don't know. Some of these stories pre-date most auto-correct functions, so ... It seems to be a homonym problem, but the users are absolutely consistent in it. I mean sometimes our brains lapse out and we type "their" instead of "there" for instance, but that's by accident and two paragraphs later we'll get it right. But these ... they just use the wrong one all the damned time.

Another one that drives me crazy (and I see it all the time in newspaper articles) is "disinterested" instead of "uninterested".

[bksbracelet]

Disinterested wow I actually thought that was correct I will lock that away now to use in my clinical notes. My clients are often playing on their mobiles demonstrating what I thought was ‘disinterest’ in the session. Should I actually be using uninterested ?

[britinmanor]

An uninterested person is bored, unconcerned, or indifferent.

A disinterested person is impartial, unbiased, or has no stake in the outcome. If you're on trial, you want a disinterested judge.

[jule2009]

Oh - I just could imagine you writing this and hitting the keys really hard.

I miss our talks.
And I miss you.

[wren_kt7oz]

Miss you too. Would love to sit down with you and discuss things like GO in detail. I love the show so much. It's so damned clever