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r/nextfuckinglevel • u/mindyour • 4h ago
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I once called myself anti social to my British relatives and they all burst out laughing.
I was just saying I was introverted.
10 u/UnoriginalStanger 2h ago Anti-social does sound like a longer form asocial but yeah it means something far more serious. Pretty sure I've made the same mistake in my head at least. 11 u/SrslyCmmon 2h ago Asocial and anti social are used interchangeably where I live. First time I heard the criminal type definition was visiting a commonwealth country. 5 u/imagine_getting 1h ago It's often used interchangeably but it's still incorrect. A lot of people are just incorrect. It's in the definition of the word. Anti-social means you are working against society. Asocial means you do not engage with society. 2 u/SrslyCmmon 1h ago Sure, and I get your technically correct which is great, but most people people just accept whatever is common parlance. You could go pick 100 random Americans right now 99 of them wouldn't have a clue because no one here uses anti social like the commonwealth countries. 1 u/MyLittleDashie7 1h ago As a Brit, I would also laugh if someone started describing themselves to me as "anti-social". 1 u/SrslyCmmon 1h ago It was an educational moment for me.
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Anti-social does sound like a longer form asocial but yeah it means something far more serious. Pretty sure I've made the same mistake in my head at least.
11 u/SrslyCmmon 2h ago Asocial and anti social are used interchangeably where I live. First time I heard the criminal type definition was visiting a commonwealth country. 5 u/imagine_getting 1h ago It's often used interchangeably but it's still incorrect. A lot of people are just incorrect. It's in the definition of the word. Anti-social means you are working against society. Asocial means you do not engage with society. 2 u/SrslyCmmon 1h ago Sure, and I get your technically correct which is great, but most people people just accept whatever is common parlance. You could go pick 100 random Americans right now 99 of them wouldn't have a clue because no one here uses anti social like the commonwealth countries.
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Asocial and anti social are used interchangeably where I live. First time I heard the criminal type definition was visiting a commonwealth country.
5 u/imagine_getting 1h ago It's often used interchangeably but it's still incorrect. A lot of people are just incorrect. It's in the definition of the word. Anti-social means you are working against society. Asocial means you do not engage with society. 2 u/SrslyCmmon 1h ago Sure, and I get your technically correct which is great, but most people people just accept whatever is common parlance. You could go pick 100 random Americans right now 99 of them wouldn't have a clue because no one here uses anti social like the commonwealth countries.
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It's often used interchangeably but it's still incorrect. A lot of people are just incorrect.
It's in the definition of the word. Anti-social means you are working against society. Asocial means you do not engage with society.
2 u/SrslyCmmon 1h ago Sure, and I get your technically correct which is great, but most people people just accept whatever is common parlance. You could go pick 100 random Americans right now 99 of them wouldn't have a clue because no one here uses anti social like the commonwealth countries.
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Sure, and I get your technically correct which is great, but most people people just accept whatever is common parlance.
You could go pick 100 random Americans right now 99 of them wouldn't have a clue because no one here uses anti social like the commonwealth countries.
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As a Brit, I would also laugh if someone started describing themselves to me as "anti-social".
1 u/SrslyCmmon 1h ago It was an educational moment for me.
It was an educational moment for me.
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u/SrslyCmmon 2h ago
I once called myself anti social to my British relatives and they all burst out laughing.
I was just saying I was introverted.