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The Pain of the Parish Pedant

25 October, 2013
Posted in: Dublin, Ireland, Princess

We had the parable of the unjust judge at mass recently. The archbishop came. He gave a great sermon but it contained the following line: “scripture scholars tell us that it was not that this judge was corrupt or took bribes, it was just that he was disinterested”. I said to herself after mass, “Well what did you think of the archbishop?” She replied, “He doesn’t know the difference between uninterested and disinterested.” That’s my girl.

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  1. MT says

    26 October, 2013 at 08:45

    There is no joy in being a grammar pedant. She has years of suffering ahead of her, and it will elicit little sympathy. A government subsidised support scheme is the only answer for her, and other survivors.

  2. disgruntled says

    26 October, 2013 at 10:24

    It’s especially galling because the classic way to explain the difference between disinterested and uninterested is that you’d want a disinterested judge but not an uninterested one.

    I suspect that particular stable door is long past bolting though. Apostrophes alone will give her enough grief to last a lifetime

  3. belgianwaffle says

    29 October, 2013 at 00:10

    MT, I know, you are too, too right.

    Disgruntled, don’t I know it, that was the very example we used when explaining the difference to herself originally which is possibly why she noticed the error. I think you’re right about the apostrophe. I’ve been trying, with some success, to interest her in random capitalisation also. I fail to see why I should suffer alone.

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