Lose & Loose

[Captain Muppet]

collateral said:

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 it

I check everything I write myself, several times. Then bung it through spell check (unless I'm feeling particularly cocky). I'm very happy if it goes through.

[Big Rod]

An ex-girlfriend of mine told be she couldn't pronounce 'freezing'. She said 'freezening'

Odd thing was, she wrote it like that too.

Made my teeth itch.

[BrewsterBear]

kentmotorcompany said:

Superior academic and linguistic knowledge does not make a superior person, and it should not be used to bash and belittle people.
If one has learning one should wear it lightly.

I would agree, but we're hardly talking about a doctorate in language here. Everyone goes to primary school. I refuse to believe, given its profligacy, that everyone who uses "loose" incorrectly does so through having a learning difficulty, unless you count lazy stupidity as such a condition.

[Evil Monkey]

Ayahuasca said:

It is a trivial, all be it annoying, error but it doesn't phase me.

Albeit is one word.

[Ayahuasca]

Evil Monkey said:

Ayahuasca said:

It is a trivial, all be it annoying, error but it doesn't phase me.

Albeit is one word.

[littleredrooster]

Ayahuasca said:

Evil Monkey said:

Ayahuasca said:

It is a trivial, all be it annoying, error but it doesn't phase me.

Albeit is one word.

The trap was bated...

[Evil Monkey]

littleredrooster said:

Ayahuasca said:

Evil Monkey said:

Ayahuasca said:

It is a trivial, all be it annoying, error but it doesn't phase me.

Albeit is one word.

The trap was bated...

Oh bugger.

[GG89]

Lose and Loose I can forgive, brought and bought, I cannot.

How does that even happen? Are these idiots also saying it wrong in conversation?

[shakotan]

GG89 said:

Are these idiots also saying it wrong in conversation?

Yes they are, and seldom to they twig when my response is "Really, where did you bring it from?".

[ukwill]

Ayahuasca said:

Evil Monkey said:

Ayahuasca said:

It is a trivial, all be it annoying, error but it doesn't phase me.

Albeit is one word.

[RizzoTheRat]

GG89 said:

Lose and Loose I can forgive, brought and bought, I cannot.

How does that even happen? Are these idiots also saying it wrong in conversation?

I have a collegue who writes "specific" but says "pacific". Weird.

[myles1972]

GG89 said:

Lose and Loose I can forgive, brought and bought, I cannot.

How does that even happen? Are these idiots also saying it wrong in conversation?

When did lose/loose start to happen? I never noticed this level of idiocy 15 years ago.

[Bluebarge]

littleredrooster said:

The trap was bated...

And is still waiting to spring for a second time....

[RizzoTheRat]

myles1972 said:

When did lose/loose start to happen? I never noticed this level of idiocy 15 years ago.

You probably didn't have regular communication with anywhere near as many people 15 years ago to see as much of it.

[Corpulent Tosser]

kentmotorcompany said:

Superior academic and linguistic knowledge does not make a superior person, and it should not be used to bash and belittle people.
If one has learning one should wear it lightly.

fk Of !

[GG89]

myles1972 said:

GG89 said:

Lose and Loose I can forgive, brought and bought, I cannot.

How does that even happen? Are these idiots also saying it wrong in conversation?

When did lose/loose start to happen? I never noticed this level of idiocy 15 years ago.

I see brought/bought more often than loose/lose.

Unbelievable.

[eldar]

Bumber, a boob appreciator. Bumper is the bit on you car you scraped.

Learn the difference between a car and a boob, a grown up on PH will help you.

[shakotan]

eldar said:

Bumber, a boob appreciator. Bumper is the bit on you car you scraped.

Learn the difference between a car and a boob, a grown up on PH will help you.

Bumber seems to be a Northern thing, like dint vs dent.

[Harrytsg]

A colleague from a previous job pronounced Fenchurch (street station) as Fence church.

Trivial but annoying.

[Ayahuasca]

Bluebarge said:

littleredrooster said:

The trap was bated...

And is still waiting to spring for a second time....

Nobody has stepped on the secondary mine yet.



I am waiting with baited breath!