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I know, I know, it's the favourite bugbear of some on PH. I'm not a grammar Nazi and I'm more than capable of making typos and mistakes myself, but how can it be that all over the amateur-typed internet I see loose used incorrectly for lose more than the correct spelling? We're talking primary school English here. Of course there/their/they're catches some hard of thinking out, but at least they all sound the same when spoken. Lose and loose are even pronounced differently.
Lose - To misplace or be deprived of something with little hope of getting it back.
Loose - Larger than required and as such ill fitting.
It's not fking difficult.
Every time I see it posted incorrectly, whether here, other forums, Facebook, etc, I *really* want to point out how pathetically stupid it is. I don't want to become one of those types, but it really does grate on me. Phonetic spelling has a lot to answer for.
(2/10 - Not enough swearing)
Lose - To misplace or be deprived of something with little hope of getting it back.
Loose - Larger than required and as such ill fitting.
It's not fking difficult.
Every time I see it posted incorrectly, whether here, other forums, Facebook, etc, I *really* want to point out how pathetically stupid it is. I don't want to become one of those types, but it really does grate on me. Phonetic spelling has a lot to answer for.
(2/10 - Not enough swearing)
Edited by BrewsterBear on Thursday 1st August 11:34
The problem with trying to exhort fellow users to spell better is that I would then have to read a higher proportion of the posts in each topic.
At the moment, poor spelling and grammar acts as a useful idiot filter, as badly-written posts tend to be badly-thought too.
At the moment, poor spelling and grammar acts as a useful idiot filter, as badly-written posts tend to be badly-thought too.
Edited by Johnnytheboy on Friday 2nd August 13:52
Scraping and scrapping, snaping and snapping always make me grimace:
'My car has seen better days*, I am thinking of scraping it'
'I scrapped my car on the gatepost'
'I tried to undo the bolt, but it snaped off'
This provides us with much hilarity at work, whenever there is a bang, tinkle followed by an 'oh bks' Someone enquires "Oh dear, have you snaped it?"
The Snap-on tool rep is now 'The Snape-on man'
'My car has seen better days*, I am thinking of scraping it'
'I scrapped my car on the gatepost'
'I tried to undo the bolt, but it snaped off'
This provides us with much hilarity at work, whenever there is a bang, tinkle followed by an 'oh bks' Someone enquires "Oh dear, have you snaped it?"
The Snap-on tool rep is now 'The Snape-on man'
- Don't laugh (much), but I originally typed 'past its best, but couldn't decide whether it was passed or past!
Some people lack the ability to spell, some people can't be bothered, some people do it deliberately to be annoying.
Correcting any of those three types of people won't achieve anything.
Feel free to correct my spelling, I work at it, but I'm rubbish. I often use spellcheck, but that doesn't help if you've typed the wrong word correctly.
Correcting any of those three types of people won't achieve anything.
Feel free to correct my spelling, I work at it, but I'm rubbish. I often use spellcheck, but that doesn't help if you've typed the wrong word correctly.
Captain Muppet said:
Some people lack the ability to spell, some people can't be bothered, some people do it deliberately to be annoying.
Correcting any of those three types of people won't achieve anything.
Feel free to correct my spelling, I work at it, but I'm rubbish. I often use spellcheck, but that doesn't help if you've typed the wrong word correctly.
I'm positive that relying on spellcheck has degraded my ability to spell without itCorrecting any of those three types of people won't achieve anything.
Feel free to correct my spelling, I work at it, but I'm rubbish. I often use spellcheck, but that doesn't help if you've typed the wrong word correctly.
Captain Muppet said:
Some people lack the ability to spell, some people can't be bothered, some people do it deliberately to be annoying.
Correcting any of those three types of people won't achieve anything.
Feel free to correct my spelling, I work at it, but I'm rubbish. I often use spellcheck, but that doesn't help if you've typed the wrong word correctly.
I'm constantly having to correct my automatic spellcheck as it's set to American and I don't know how to bloody set it into English.Correcting any of those three types of people won't achieve anything.
Feel free to correct my spelling, I work at it, but I'm rubbish. I often use spellcheck, but that doesn't help if you've typed the wrong word correctly.
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