Losing vs. Loosing

[Bullet Bob]

As I suspected, no real answer.

As long as I can figure out someone's intent, spelling doesn't bother me. Okay, not much.

I've just seen loose used so much lately when lose was meant, I had to double check the definition to see if I had had a synapse relapse, and all the loosers were right.

 

[03Std]

As I suspected, no real answer.

As long as I can figure out someone's intent, spelling doesn't bother me. Okay, not much.

I've just seen loose used so much lately when lose was meant, I had to double check the definition to see if I had had a synapse relapse, and all the loosers were right.

I understand where you're coming from. I read a Kindle book a day, and it drives me crazy when I see 'that' used instead of 'who' in a sentence. Authors of all ages, no less.

 

[Texas Star]

I agree with the above complaints. The ignorant and the poorly educated abound...

My pet peeve is spelling "knives" as "knifes" and "sheaths" as "sheaves." Sheaves are bundles of wheat or hay!

But the "lose or "loose" thing also really gets to me..

 

[Rule3]

The grammar or spelling police threads pop up all the time.

It's the internet with threads and posts. Does it really matter?

It's not material for a Puttzer Prize or anything.

Just PLEASE figure out ADVISE AND ADVICE!

 

[Rule3]

I agree with the above complaints. The ignorant and the poorly educated abound...

My pet peeve is spelling "knives" as "knifes" and sheaths" as "sheaves." Sheaves are bundles of wheat or hay!

But the "lose or "loose" thing also really gets to me..

OMG not this again!! KNAVES!!

Search the archives!

It was a WIFES and WIVES!

 

[rwsmith]

Homing and honing in....

These are 'almost' the same, but the first refers to correcting direction or a thought process while honing refers to sharpening or making more precise something that is existing.

I always heard 'homing in' referring to pigeons, travelers and guided missiles.

Seems that 'hone in' now covers the gamut and heck with fine differences.

I realize that language 'evolves', but wrong is wrong and should never be made right. Add to it, yes.

 

[jimbo728]

The grammatical errors do not annoy me as much as when someone begins a post or other communication with the word "So".
I squirm when someone asks , what grain bullet do I need.
What weight bullet inquiries at least shows someone knows the distinction between the use of those words.
Just my .02 cents.
Jim

 

[AZretired]

Spelling doesn't bother me all that much as we all have fat fingers at times. What does bug me is made up words like "prolly" instead of probably, or so and so "gifted' me a knife when actually so and son"gave" you a knife.

 

[Fishslayer]

I guess my question is why does this happen? Do auto progrms finish the word when typing? Am I in the wrong universe, or an alternative dimension?

Many times it's tongue in cheek.

 

[TomkinsSP]

Living Down Under I learnt UK spelling not US, so I get annoyed every time the spellcheck wants to substitute a "z" for an "s" in some words. Even after adding the word to the dictionary doesn't stop it sometimes.

"There" and "their", "your" and "you're", and the others listed above are bad but today's writers do not know the difference between "a" and "an" or when the ' goes before or after the "s" added onto the end of the word and many other grammatical errors.

But the worst are news items I read that either don't make sense either through repeating a phrase at both the beginning and ending of a point or through really bad spelling.

I'm turning into the grumpy old git that I always laughed at when I was younger.

Still I would rather my shooing was "loose" during a competition stage than "lose" the match!

I always thought you just added a superfluous u to a word to make it UK english....

louse colour labour

 

[Rastoff]

I don't really care that its being used, I just want to understand why, and so often, across such a broad spectrum.

Friend, the answer is the world we live in.

Because there is no shortage of poorly educated people surfing the web which I hope is a good thing lol

It's not a lack of education, it's a lack of caring.

Loose and Lose do sound different. Loose uses a soft S and Lose uses a hard S or more of a Z sound. The problem lies with how the O is pronounced.

In school we're told that the letter O placed next to itself makes an ooh sound like in moon. This creates difficulty for words like Lose because it still has the sound like moon but only one O.

Most of the people using the wrong word actually know the correct one to use, they just don't care enough to correct it.

And that leads us to the place where we are today. Someone on the internet corrects the grammar of someone else and we see what it really means to be part of a democracy. In other words, they shout loudly that they don't care and others pile on the one person who actually got it correct rather than support the value of using proper grammar.

 

[wundudnee]

When you guys get this all straightened out please work on Calvary and cavalry.

 

[Jack Flash]

When you guys get this all straightened out please work on Calvary and cavalry.

Then try rain, rein, and reign.

 

[snubbyfan]

I'm not highly edjumacated but I do try. Yeah I've had some college but that was only because I wanted to learn some stuff.
I've worked in warehouses and factories most of my adult life and neither of those require perfect grammar.
I don't correct anybody's grammar because we all come from different backgrounds, have different education levels and different ways of expressing ourselves.
To me it's just being shallow and pedantic. Not unlike beer, cigar and gun snobs.

 

[Rustyt1953]

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[Sevens]

Oh I can't fully agree with that when you consider being out in the world, interacting with people, going to work etc is one thing -- but specifically attempting to communicate via the written word on a forum is something else.

I think almost everyone can admit that eventually they draw a line.

How about if we all entered our posts like teenage girls text on their phone?

Um rlyUR gonna say sall good &dst matr?

Sometimes it is ignorance, much of it quite innocent. Sometimes it is simply carelessness... and perhaps speaks to the poster's respect for the venue and audience. Or lack thereof.

The ones who use no punctuation, capitalization, line breaks, paragraphs?

Just slot me over with the folks who appreciate those who make the effort. To me, it's perhaps emblematic of how one might approach ANY task. Why not put some effort in to it, do it properly?

 

[TX-Dennis]

A friend once posted that she was loosing her mind. I asked her what it was attached to before she loosed it.

She now thinks I am strange. Sadly, she is correct.

A couple of my favorite books are oldies written by the late news man Edwin Newman; Strictly Speaking and A Civil Tongue. I can read them and laugh out loud for hours.

Told you I was strange.

 

[BC38]

I think that would be called a "mistake".

I make them all the time myself....

 

[shouldazagged]

I learned grammar the hard but enjoyable way, being taught to diagram sentences in the eighth and ninth grades and having my spoken grammar gently corrected at home by a journalist and a schoolteacher.

I'm a very good speller but a lousy typist. My fingers are gnarled with arthritis, and I have no surface sensation in the thumb and first two fingers of either hand. Because I was taught to expect accuracy of myself, I spend a hell of a lot of time correcting my posts and other writings.

But that is just my expectation of me.

I notice other people's misspellings and grammatical errors. Sometimes, not often, I wince a little inwardly, and mourn the state of written English. But I'll be redundantly hornswoggled if I'll presume to correct anybody else's writing unless I'm asked to edit something.

That to me is arrant snobbery.

If the meaning comes through, the writing is successful.

 

[Rustyt1953]

If the meaning comes through, the writing is successful.

This should be a bumper sticker.