On accident

I kind of can’t take people seriously when they say On accident, I don’t know or care if its more or less grammatical, it sounds like a child sputtering in my mind. It should be By accident or accidentally

Tummy

Any adult has zero business saying this lol

  • SanguinePar@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    A whole lot of grammatical and/or punctuation-related things.

    A particular bugbear is people using “disinterested” when the word they mean and should (IMO) use is “uninterested”.

    I appreciate that “disinterested” has come to mean “uninterested” but since it has another, already established meaning, I wish people would use them correctly.

    For what it’s worth:

    • Uninterested - “that has no interest for me, I do not have interest in it.”
    • Disinterested - “that may or may not have interest for me, but either way, I do not have an interest in it.”