LOSE is the opposite of WIN, LOOSE is the opposite of TIGHT,

[fob]

I am not trying to be the typo police, but in thread after thread I read about someone "loosing". The freeper morans that visit might not notice, but let's try and do better!

End of constructive criticism for my fellow loving DU'ers

[LittleApple81]

1. I agree

Typos (or misspelled words) get in the way of understanding and appreciating the stories being conveyed.

[trof]

2. or

Lose is the opposite of Find,
and Loose is the opposite of Moral.
;-)

[starroute]

20. I think people get thrown off by choose and chose

Loose rhymes with goose.

Lose rhymes with choose.

Chose rhymes with those.

I don't like seeing errors either -- but I know the difference, and I still have to stop and count on my fingers to make sure I've got it right.

There's a similar problem with lead and led.

"Lead" the metal sounds the same as "led" the past tense of the verb "lead."

But "lead," the present tense, rhymes with "bleed."

As a result, people get confused and often spell the past tense as "lead" instead of "led."


I suspect it's a lost cause.

[opihimoimoi]

3. More than likely, it was the freep troll

what can I say??

[phaseolus]

4. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

I'm generally not a grammar weenie but misspelling "lose" is my greatest net pet peeve these days.

[quinnox]

5. That's a common one

Here is another. "Noone" is used in place of "no one" or "none". Please notice, "noone" is not a word!

[ForrestGump]

30. Peter Noone, of Herman's Hermits,

thinks it is. :-)

[patdem]

6. Hey, losen up!

:bounce: :hi: :party:

[Droopy]

7. Here's a couple that always get me

Speak and speech. I always get them messed up like this: speek and speach. I had to look them up in the dictionary the other day. Now I've got it right. Shame on me, I won't let it happen again.

[kutastha]

8. Another

This one just gets to me every time I see it: "Definately". Where does that come from?

[QC]

9. Thanks!

Also, it's masturbate, not masterbate.

And apostrophes are used to indicate possession. They don't make things plural. So you wouldn't say "What do the soldier's think about Bushs lie's?"

Yes, I'm sounding very pedantic here, but it is expected of me as an English teacher.

[markses]

16. Except Except Except Except Except

When dealing with "it," in which case the apostrophe indicates a contraction of "it is" (i.e. "it's"), while the possessive uses NO apostrophe: its.

And we have to ACCEPT the EXCEPTIONS...;-)

[TahitiNut]

18. Your right.

:eyes:

[QC]

29. True--that's an important exception.

And one that makes no sense, of course.

[GayboyBilly]

10. Just my 2 cents...

I would worry more about the degradation of our Country, than someone's grammar.

[TNDemo]

11. Thank you. Drives me nuts too. And "whacko" is another one.

Unless you are slamming somebody against the head the spelling is "wacko." As in they are wacky.

[Pathwalker]

12. When my pants get too loose, I tend to lose them.

Luckily, I always find them around my ankles.

[quinnox]

14. Good one

This should be quoted in all threads where loose is used incorrectly.

A side comment-(It drives me up the wall too, this kind of thing, especially "noone"! This non-word is so pervasive on the internet, it is ridiculous.)

[Feanorcurufinwe]

13. I also thank you

I also thank you. I started seeing this online, now I've even read it in the papers. ARRRGH!

[BeFree]

15. Yer write!

.

[Nay]

17. Yes, these mistakes are NOT hard to learn to correct, and it's

a sign of ignorance for people to continue to make these mistakes even after the errors have been pointed out constantly on this board. I have hesitated to insert grammar and spelling corrections/suggestions into posts talking about other things, but it is so disheartening to read posts that are borderline illiterate on a Democratic site. We are supposed to be better than the freepers who never read anything but Coulter and comics!

[KG]

19. bad grammer is four loosers!

it don't take a genious to learn the difference between 'you're' and 'your'; or their, there and they're; or affect and effect; weather and wheather; roll and role; and a bunch of other mis-uses of the english language i often see in the 'net! :)

[TahitiNut]

24. And just what is a "genious"?

Someone neither ingenious or 'outgenious'? Someone possessing the magical attributes of a genie? Part of a new taxonomy that's a subset of genus and a subgrouping of species? Or is it merely an ingenious genius, possessing both inventiveness and brilliance?

It's a living language, for sure. :silly:

[Melinda]

21. Alot of people don't know better.

^^^ not a compound word.

I suddenly feel as if Miss Landers might magically appear and tell each of us "Well done, Beaver."

[Skittles]

22. kick

I'm LOSING it, not LOOSING IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[whoYaCallinAlib]

23. I don't plan on loosing the '04 election.

Therefore, I won't be using that word again.

[Generic Other]

25. I get so "FLUSTRATED" with people who make the lose/loose error!

Anyone else hear the word "flustrated" creeping into the language? Where did that originate? Fluster + Frustrate? Flustrated? It really drives me.

[Karenina]

26. And the WINNER IS:

:bounce: HYPOCRISY :bounce:

Please make a note of it.

[newyawker99]

27. Is it possible that the person can spell the word properly

but just doesn't take the time to check for errors? We all make mistakes and we are not writing scholarly papers here. :eyes:

[Q]

28. You expect too much...

...from people who live in a nation with an illiterate president*.

[ForrestGump]

32. He was illiterate? Really?

Who was his father, then? Does Babs know?

I guess she was a lose woman, at least once you got her tight with some martinis.

[ForrestGump]

31. Hippo-critical: making snide comments about 'river horses'

I've been second-guessing myself lately 'cos I spell that word hypocrisy and was wondering if I'd been wrong all this time, but I checked the following and it spake unto me that, nay, I was cool:

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=HYPOCRISY

Am I missing something here? I am wiped-out tired, so that wouldn't be the least likely occurrence.....

Not that its' anything to loose sleepover, I guest.

[FlashHarry]

33. Noone dose it alot, tho. (Why is this in GD, by the way?) N/T