Loose vs Lose
 

No this is not a follow-up thread about fudging bank statements. This is about my increasing frustration that people do not know the difference between the word lose and loose. You LOSE and game, you do not LOOSE a game. I know I am nitpicking but the amount of people that make that mistake what in hell does that say about education these days? It makes me want to loose my mind...ahhhh fuck now look what you made me do!

THE prom.

Nitoicking? Don't do that!

losen up.

This is a very important topic.

It damn well is important. Almost as important as fritz.

your vs. youre is about 1,000 times worse. it's reaching epidimic levels

i'd say that 1 out of every 2-3 times it's done wrong, in my own observation

peak my interest

Makes me want to go all CamEdwards on myself.

Yeah, that's my #1 peeve probably.

Ping:BubbaWheels.

Color or Colour?

Agreed, I forgot about that one. Some people may think it is unimportant but honestly, if you cannot differentiate between your and you're or lose and loose I think that actually is important.

either one?

as per dictionary.com:

pwned!

FM

Edited for stupid typo...damn did you have to nitoick on my post like that?

I definately know the difference, but sometimes it still creeps into a sentence I'm typing. Apparently I sometimes go on autopilot and type phonetically. I've caught myself misusing your - you're, their -there, and even loose - lose(I know I've at least caught that one before moving on).

It's hard to know when someone is joking in this thread.

I had the exact same thought... :)

FM

I thought it was you're?

YORE

Back in the days of your.

yoar

you are=you're

English roxxers d00d l33l

I do find it funny that someone with Oilers in their name started this thread today.

(Yes, yes, I know, 1967, etc.)

There, their, and they're is just as bad too.

I like lose women.

I have seen "definitely" spelled wrong so many times, the correct spelling looks wrong to my eye now.

Your gonna loose you're mined!

This thread is loosing me. Don't sweat the small stuff, looser.

Adding the requisite "language is dynamic, not static" statement...

Why isn't this a poll?

Don't forget your "capitols"!
 

I thought the beginning of every sentence was supposed to start with a "capitol" letter :confused:

I'd say to, too, two seems to be about as abused as the Texan's backfield.

It's becoming an epidimic, if you ask myself

I had no intention of mentioning 1967 but yes small things make me bitter these days. I am sure you can assume why.

1967! (sorry) :)

I suppose it's pointless to really be concerned about split infinitives.

While you/your/you're is pretty irritating, loose vs. lose seems to me to be a much more fundamental (and therefore stupid) error. They don't even sound the same.

I'll throw in the use of an apostrophe for its/it's. "It" cannot be possessive -- "it's" ALWAYS means "it is."

What if your legal name is "It".

Hmm...hmmmmmmm

Touché.

Did anyone mention rediculous yet? ;)

i once had a basketball coach that came into the locker room after we got blown out one night and wrote

"You guys are a bunch of loosers"

on the blackboard...it was so hard not to crack up laughing while he was standing there yelling at us.

Did he then call you a bunch of morans?

lose vs. loose is definitely the biggest spelling fuckup that makes me want to bash somebody very hard over the head with a shovel.

their/there/they're and your/you're don't bother me all that much. But u and ur for you/you're/your... Man, whenever I see that, I automatically think the person's a dumbass.

Isn't "its" the possessive of it?

Prince's bodyguards and the Filipino text-messaging community are coming to kick your ass...

At least he didn't ask what it means to LOSE and game.

This thread is the most dominate attack on bad grammar I've seen in a while...

Tru dat.

Actually caught it while re-reading, and lost DSL while editing in a couple of changes. So no I wasn't joking, and then God prevented me from covering my tracks.

Another one I noticed a lot lately is quiet vs quite. If you don't like fan noise, build a quiet pc, not a quite pc. Try googling quite pc and you'll see what I mean.

This is my personal #1. Can't stand it.

Ayup.

This thread is making me have flashbacks to the hundreds of papers I graded last semester. If I keep reading this I'll need hospitalization. Thanks a lot.

Sure, send God the bill for your cheap choice of Internet provider. :)