"Disingenuine"
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Seems like Steven's incredible vocabulary is rubbing off on Kimberly.
Run, Kimberly! Run before you lose coherence all together!
Run, Kimberly! Run before you lose coherence all together!
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There we go, thats better.
She's proved that by snogging boring Steven.
If you've never attended an English lesson, then yes it is. Disingenuous is the word
Disingenuine is the comparative of disingenuous.
Eg. He is more disingenuine than she is.
In what language?
I'm surprised you're even asking.
...which is not how she used it.
Disingenuous is the correct word, disingenuine doesn't exist. He is more disingenuous than she is. A previously common and erroneous substitution was disingenious, but this was mainly in the 17th century.
to be fake; not mean it
Jasdeep: hey Nirmal you'll miss me wont' you?
NIrmal: FOR SURE!
Jasdeep: you sound so disingenuine
Everyone is correct, it's not in Merriam Webster but it is in the Urban dictionary. Seeing how English is a language always in flux I see no issue really.
And when I say everyone I include Kim.
Agreed.
it really jarred didn't it. Steven and Kim are a match made in heaven with their over inflated sense of their own intelligence.
For me, as an English student, if it isn't in the OED, it isn't a word
Well of course not. It's not taught in school is it?
Thing is when I googled it and a LOT of sites had a definition for it. It is a word that IS in use.
Hey at least she doesn't pronounce T as if it was an F.
So it is VALID, whether I like it or not, it is valid it is in use. English is / has never been set in stone, it's always evolving. We don't speak English like they did in the last century and they didn't speak it (or write it) as they did the century before and so on.
I suppose as an American I'm more open to the changing nature and use of words. I don't expect nor need my Shakespeare brought up to date and really what was Leonardo DeCaprio thinking. Yo Yo Romeo.
It isn't a word I know so I consulted the dictionary. Not there.
So I turn to Google in hope it may give me some new meaning. It just asks me if I mean disingenuous.
My conclusion is that it is one of those frequently misheard words
It doesn't just ask that it also gives LOADS of sites with the definition of disingenuine. That might be considered disingenuous to say that even.
PS Said I would never use it. ;-)
Have you updated your google recently.
I do think poor Kimberley has lost her mind in there - or Steven has convinced her he's a multi-millionaire.
So because it's on the internet, it's valid?
Seriously?
And what the the hell does 'valid' even mean in the context of 'not being a word'?
The things some people will come out with on this forum to defend the HMs gets more ridiculous every year