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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:
So I am uninterested in them, but we are disinterested in each other? Do I have that more or less right?
Disinterested just means that you don't have any skin in the game, and can be impartial.
Eg, if you were in court you would want the judge to be disinterested, but you wouldn't want them to be uninterested :-)
Ah, that makes more sense thanks