DammitJanet
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when they use the word "loose" in place of "lose"?
Does anyone else instantly think a person is retarded...
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Billy Pilgrim
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DammitJanet said:
No, but when I was a kid I had an excellent grasp of pronunciation, so I always hated it when other kids pronounced Library as Liberry, Popsicle-Pocksicle, Backpack-Packpack, Napkin-Nackin, etc.
I have butter fingers so i have lots of mistakes in my typing. But intentional misspellings do bug me. i hate the following:
"I miss u 2"
"PLZ"
"STFU"
makes me cringe.
"I miss u 2"
"PLZ"
"STFU"
makes me cringe.
Got a problem Kimko? Wanna throw Down! ROAAARR!!!!!!! ( snort a spark plug up my nose) LEts rumble!
Ehh yea we are bored.
Ehh yea we are bored.
ugafan said:
Um yes?
Loose - adjective, not tight
Loose - verb, let go (pronounced same, though meaning is different)
Lose - verb, lost
All three have entirely different meanings. Anyway just thought I'd throw that out whilst this render numbs my brain.
I'm not aware of any English dialect where "loose" is a correct alternate spelling for "lose," or vice-versa. They're completely different words with different origins.J Michael said:
David, you lost me there.
Also, are and our. They're, their and there seems to confound a lot of the population. People want to use they're as a possessive. That makes me crazy - especially when it comes from someone I'm supposed to take seriously.
Mistakes in a rapid-fire forum environment are one thing, but when these mistakes find their way into edited material, all credibility goes right out the window.
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Also, are and our. They're, their and there seems to confound a lot of the population. People want to use they're as a possessive. That makes me crazy - especially when it comes from someone I'm supposed to take seriously.
Mistakes in a rapid-fire forum environment are one thing, but when these mistakes find their way into edited material, all credibility goes right out the window.
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overlandfilms said:
Completely agree.
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Speaking of this I love that commercial with the little girl and her mom arguing in texting/internet jargon. The look of the mom at the end is priceless.
Terry_Lasater
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MsManhattan
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Ming said:
That's funny -- when I first started using text messaging, I typed out EVERYTHING in complete words and sentences. It drove other people crazy. After about six months, I finally relented and started using IM-speak, but I deplore using those terms in email. I still write out everything formally in an email.
Even after I started using IM-speak for IMs, I still hated "K" for "O.K." What, you are so busy you cannot type one extra letter??? But, alas, I now find myself doing that as well.
Of course, I still spell-check my posts and will modify them when a typo slips through. Having said that, I better double-check this one now...
Misuse of plural possessives and the word "myriad" drive me crazy, too. Also, "toward" (the American English version) vs. "towards" (the British English version).
Stop me, I could go on and on. My first job after college was copy editing for a weekly newspaper headed up by a very old-school editor...
MsManhattan said:
Would that most of them (and everything else) could still be.
kimko said:
I dont know? why were we fighting again? ehh whatever..................