Hey, folks (!) there is NO SUCH WORD as "LOOSING"

[karlrschneider]

If you are in the process of misplacing something, you are LOSING it.
Jesus, I'm sorry to belabor this, but can't we be a little smarter than the idiot freepers?
:grr:
/rant

[Demi_Babe]

1. that always gets me too

[LisaL]

2. Oh boy.

Here comes the Grammar Police.
:eyes:

[karlrschneider]

11. No, I'm not the grammar police, I'm the spelling cop.

:D

But, seriously, shouldn't we make every effort to appear as intelligent as we actually are? We poke fun at the freepers for their linguistic bungles, why should we allow our own to commit similar errors without a gentle reminder or correction?
;-)

[ZombieNixon]

33. I'M the grammar police.

And please don't flame me for it. It's not my fault. My mother's an author.

[Lautremont]

3. Me too!

Why, people, why do you spell it that way? Will one culprit come clean and explain it? Just one?

[arewenotdemo]

28. and there are many

Never noticed that it was even an issue till someone on a baseball board mentioned it. Since then, and especially here at DU, I've noticed that it's misused at least half the time.

I can't figure it out...are we a nation of dyslexics or sumpin'?

[Pastiche423]

4. lol

Thank you

[rooboy]

5. I wish people would check there spelling, too. n/t

[karlrschneider]

8. Uh, "there spelling"?

:eyes:
Hey, I just want us to look as smart as we are...
:D

[rooboy]

38. What's the matter? Is their something wrong with my post? n/t

[MADem]

34. Better still: wish they WOOD chek they're speling! n/t

[RafterMan]

6. Tell that to an archer

[karlrschneider]

14. Ah. I suppose there is such a word in the world of archery? I knew it not

What does it mean in that context?...it sounds like some sort of apparatus that might release the 'string' whilst shooting...??

[RafterMan]

27. You sound like the Magistrate!

You loose arrows. While you are doing it, you are "loosing" them.

[GAspnes]

7. there are too many to fight

it's a tidal wave of badd speling.

fewer/less.
thought of/thought've
theirs/their's

I've given up. I write right, and they right wrongs, and that's life.

[LisaL]

13. You are very, very badd.

:eyes:

[scarlett1]

9. Thank You

That drives me crazy. Hit the check spelling button.

[Castilleja]

10. Boy, do I agree with you!

It seems to be spreading and spreading. Otherwise highly educated people are beginning to do it. We know all these people learned to spell, it's not as though it is a difficult math equation that you have forgotten, it is a commonly used word. Lose, lose, lose, lose!!!!

[Eikon]

12. Thank you.

That one is the one that annoys me the most, unless it's a repub saying "sore looser!", then it's funny. Other ones include

there/they're
your/your're
recieved/received
alot/a lot

etc...

Maybe I'm just picky :P

*edit* Forgot this funny story...

Here in NC I actually saw a state sticker on a gas pump that said, "Don't steal gas, you could loose your license". Incredible that could get past enough people in NC to be printed on a sticker.

[karlrschneider]

16. Maybe it's just that I'm an old phart, schooled in several languages,

of which English is likely the most variegated and expressive of all extant tongues. (The Eskimos have us beat in a few areas, with their several dozen quasi-synomyms for "snow") but overall, the vocabulary we putatively embrace is far more inclusive and varied (probably because we employ words from half a dozen Romance languanges and a few Arabic ones as well) than likely any other. It really does appear to me that we've
become linguistically morose; but perhaps that isn't a bad thing if it makes communication possible. And a very big :eyes: on that one.

[MADem]

23. Wanna know the word for SNOW in

...Farsi?

Barf. BARF!!!

The Iranians have a laundry detergent by that very name--it's Ivory Snow, essentially. Wash your clothes in BARF!! They will be so bright and clean!

And ARABIC words...we do indeed use a bunch of 'em! Admiral, sherbet, assassin, loofah (Dild O'Reilly's personal favorite)...from algebra to zero, there's more arabic influence on the English language than many realize!

[Lex]

18. From the Winston-Salem (NC) Journal last summer

on the misuse of apostrophes:

---------------------

"A Mount Airy reader has commented on recent items here about the use of apostrophes in forming possessives and their improper use in forming plurals. He wrote:

How long has it been since you rode through lovely downtown Cana, that 'town' just north of the NC line on US52 that's about 2 miles long and 400 yds wide? It is, as it has been for all of my 32 years in Mount Airy, either Apostrophe Heaven or Apostrophe Hell, depending on your point of view. I'm confident that there are more apostrophes per capita in Cana, Va. than anywhere else on earth.

First, apostrophes are employed in the construction of virtually all pluralizations: 'lope's, apple's, 'mater's, and on and on. One notable entrepreneur is apparently named Jone, given the number of Jone's signs we see and some of these signs are of a commercial, semi-permanent variety."

[Must_B_Free]

20. I always like HOSS's

[arewenotdemo]

32. unless, of course, it was printed that way so

North Carolinians could understand.

Hey people, are we all from North Carolina?

[tjdee]

40. I do alot a lot.

:(

But I never ever do loose! The words even SOUND different. How do they read that and go yeah, that's it?

[MADem]

15. Unfortunately, there IS such a word

But I do understand that your irritation stems from the use of that word when one wants to say losing, or lose. The word is not common, most people use "loosening" nowadays.

http://www.lifeissues.net/writers/ron/ron_211bindingloosing.html

Here's a painfully soporific essay on 'Binding and Loosing' that uses the very word in the title.

I suppose we should expect misuse to increase. After all, the weecowboy just loves to cry havoc and loose those dogs of war, y'll....

[Guaranteed]

19. Like "loosing a barrage of arrows"...nt

[karlrschneider]

24. Oh, dear. Mea Culpa...you are correct, I completely forgot that context.

As in "letting loose"...indeed. I am desiccated with mortification.

[Guaranteed]

25. I'm glad you posted this, though.

I'm sick of that damned word.

[karlrschneider]

21. Painfully soporific, yes, and painfully sophomoric as well...

with all due respect to your link, I did finally, after my initial public gripe, check 2 of my dictionaries, Webster's old Collegiate (1962) and my newer one (2001) for an entry of "loosing." Alas, it appears in neither. Of course, I perfectly grasp your reply and wouldn't disagree for a moment. We know how to spell it. It just irks me because I'm an old anal curmudgeon. :D

[MADem]

30. Here's more than any of us need to know about the word

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=loose
v. loosed, loos·ing, loos·es
v. tr.
To let loose; release: loosed the dogs.
To make loose; undo: loosed his belt.
To cast loose; detach: hikers loosing their packs at camp.
To let fly; discharge: loosed an arrow.
To release pressure or obligation from; absolve: loosed her from the responsibility.
To make less strict; relax: a leader's strong authority that was loosed by easy times.

[shrub chipper]

46. What about

loosing the dogs of war?

What we should be doing to Repukes, rather than to each other!

[edbermac]

17. Can I "ax" you a question? That drives me up a wall...

[hatrack]

22. Karlschneider, did you just loose the fateful lightning . . .

of your terrible swift sword? :-)

[karlrschneider]

26. It got away from me and came back to bite me in the ass.

:D

[evilqueen]

29. YES!

I hate that when people use that word instead of losing.

Here's another one:

WERE : past tense of ARE
WE'RE : contraction of WE ARE
WHERE : a location

[Julien Sorel]

31. Cry havoc, and let lose the dogs of war.

Or is that slip. Or loose? I get confused.

[MADem]

35. I sure wish

...the g.d. weecowboy would lose that dog of war who seems to have his fangs sunk in the boy's ass!!

Where are the Peace Dogs when we need them?

[RafterMan]

36. Unfortunately,

those damned dogs of war won again.

Good slogan for '08, though.

[msgadget]

37. Apologies,

I'm guilty of that. But have you ever discovered long after posting that you let slip an error?

[karlrschneider]

41. I have indeed. I try not to repeat the faux pas.

:D

[kskiska]

39. The one that bugs me is noone

No one would ever think it, though. Then there's High Noone.

[MADem]

42. That's an Irish last name, common in the west! n/t

[kskiska]

45. Like Peter Noone

of Herman's Hermits.

[Warren DeMontague]

43. THANK YOU

I've seen that one on official corporate documents... I think I read it on the back of a videotape not too long ago. If it was once in a blue moon it might be tolerable but it's fucking everywhere. It just drives me up the wall. Thank You Thank You Thank You.. You are my hero.

[Buck Rabbit]

44. The LOOSING occurs when the laxative kicks in. You young

whippersnappers lack the wisdom of long life experience.

[MADem]

47. I often thought that the weecowboy

experienced that same loosing without benefit of ex-lax when Andy Card gave him the word about the second plane. He sure looked like he had dropped a small load in that video....

[Buck Rabbit]

49. So true, nerve induced loosing, the scourge of public appearances.

That is why I don't believe Georgius Caesar was in the LIHOP loop. I don't think his acting skills are up to faking such a convincing performance of the panicked sphincter squeeze.

[arewenotdemo]

48. Thank you, Buck Rabbit.

Any relation to Brer?

:hurts:

What was that about a laxative?

[The Minus World]

50. While we're at it.

You're = You are.
Your = Belonging to you.

They're = They are.
There = At that place.
Their = Belonging to them.

It's = It is.
Its = Belonging to it.

I believe that the larger mistake with the Freepers is their utter disdain for playing by the rules of common ethics and logic.

Spelling inadequacies aside, we face a greater problem in trying to overcome their belligerence and unwillingness to compromise over the simplest matters of right and wrong; their constant spelling errors are merely symptoms of a mind which lacks critical thinking skills.