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Loose, lose, and auto correct

Bullet Bob

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I see loose, looser, and loosing used on many types of forums when a person wants to use lose. It doesn't bother me, I can figure out the true meaning from the context.

I'm just wondering if it's an auto correct thing. I have that stuff turned off; if you use that feature and type if "lo..." does it automatically fill in loose?
 
It's not autocorrect, it's simply that many people cannot spell. Count how often you see muzzle break on a gun forum, when the writer meant muzzle brake. The other favorite seem to be jamb for a semi-auto weapon instead of jam. Only doorways have jambs, to my knowledge. Maybe the writers are gun toting carpenters.
 
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Auto-correct won’t change either one, as they are both words. They are just commonly misspelled words.
 
What I wonder is, for the people who misspell "loose" when they mean "didn't win", how do they spell "loose" when they actually mean "not tight"? [emoji849]
 
Spell Check/Auto Correct is a tool. Like any other tool it has certain capabilities. I draft and publish meeting minutes for the town commission I am Secretary of. After my first draft I will run the document through Spell Check to catch whatever it can. But then I let the document "sit and cool" (like a pie) for a few hours. After the document "cools" I make a line by line examination of it using a straightedge. It's amazing how many mistakes I find that I made the first time through. After I make the corrections, I make one more review line by line with the straightedge. And sometimes I find more mistakes that I missed on the first review. After I correct those, I give it one more time through Spell Check. The commission meeting minutes are now posted on the town web site so I really want to make sure that the meeting minutes are done as well as humanly possible. Coming at them with two types of corrective procedures goes a long way toward catching mistakes before I turn in the meeting minutes to the town secretary.

I use the "Preview Post" as much as I can for posts here. Obviously I can't print off the draft for a review with a straightedge, but I try to do the best I can.
 
No matter how many times I'll see it here, one "knive" always gets me.
Otherwise I'm of a mind with Rusty, although how he made it thru that post without the red squiggly underline causing brain spasms I'll never know.
 
Auto correct is the bane of my meager texting efforts.


But the misuse of words that fries my fritters is the preponderance of supposedly minimally educated people that were awarded a tax payer funded education by supposed professional teachers with college degrees that cannot discern the difference between sell and sale and the proper usage. It's not like it's an obscure medical term or a co-opted foreign language expression. Sheesh ! I see it here all the time. I was taught the difference between nouns and verbs and their usage before the third grade . . . :rolleyes: :confused:
 
One of the funniest things I ever saw on an inter-company email was a lady in HR accidently sent out an email only intended for a certain email group she had setup, the email was nothing of great interest to most but she had accidently sent it as a company-wide email, everyone got it.

Shortly after realizing what she had done she replied to her own msg so everyone could see the 2nd email, apologizing for any "incontinence" her first email had caused! :D
 
soFlaNative said:
No matter how many times I'll see it here, one "knive" always gets me.
Otherwise I'm of a mind with Rusty, although how he made it thru that post without the red squiggly underline causing brain spasms I'll never know.
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Does knive mean knife, ignorant, or both?
 
Identification of bad spelling and grammar is a useful tool to assess the intelligence of the source. Language and accurate communication are attributes of advanced civilization and knowledge, similar to good grooming and hygiene. There are exceptions, but there are few truly knowledgeable writers that mangle their prose, particularly with today's AI assisted spelling and grammar checkers.
 
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