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Title: am I just crazy or is it all of a sudden ok to spell "lose" as "loose"???
Post by: Mupepe on March 29, 2008, 10:12:47 AM
what the fuck??
Title: Re: am I just crazy or is it all of a sudden ok to spell "lose" as "loose"???
Post by: T-Short on March 29, 2008, 10:59:47 AM
no, that's never ok.
Title: Re: am I just crazy or is it all of a sudden ok to spell "lose" as "loose"???
Post by: GilloD on March 29, 2008, 11:00:33 AM
Its that your/you're bullshit taking another spill through the guardrails on Fuckhead Drive.
Title: Re: am I just crazy or is it all of a sudden ok to spell "lose" as "loose"???
Post by: Mupepe on March 29, 2008, 11:00:48 AM
that's what i thought!  but fuck man, so many people do it.  do they not realize it's actually less work to spell it correctly??
Title: Re: am I just crazy or is it all of a sudden ok to spell "lose" as "loose"???
Post by: Joe Molotov on March 29, 2008, 02:05:49 PM
Loosen up, don't lose your cool.
Title: Re: am I just crazy or is it all of a sudden ok to spell "lose" as "loose"???
Post by: lordmaji on March 29, 2008, 02:21:33 PM
You know what Mupepe. I was thinking the same exact shit the other day.

Odd that! GET OUT OF MY HEAD!!! :P
Title: Re: am I just crazy or is it all of a sudden ok to spell "lose" as "loose"???
Post by: Flannel Boy on March 29, 2008, 02:26:21 PM
I've noticed posters on this forum typing payed instead paid.

And stop using single hyphens instead of dashes to enclose elements of a sentence.
Title: Re: am I just crazy or is it all of a sudden ok to spell "lose" as "loose"???
Post by: xnikki118x on March 29, 2008, 02:37:17 PM
I hate lose instead of loose. I also hate two/too/to mix-ups, and should of/would of/could of instead of should have/would have/could have.
Title: Re: am I just crazy or is it all of a sudden ok to spell "lose" as "loose"???
Post by: Flannel Boy on March 29, 2008, 02:57:12 PM
I hate lose instead of loose. I also hate two/too/to mix-ups, and should of/would of/could of instead of should have/would have/could have.

Most people pronounce "could have" and "would have" as contractions: "I could've been a contender." They think they're actually saying "could of" because that's how the contraction sounds.

Title: Re: am I just crazy or is it all of a sudden ok to spell "lose" as "loose"???
Post by: CajoleJuice on March 29, 2008, 02:58:48 PM
Yea, people that do this are pretty much worse than serial rapists.
Title: Re: am I just crazy or is it all of a sudden ok to spell "lose" as "loose"???
Post by: xnikki118x on March 29, 2008, 02:59:32 PM
I hate lose instead of loose. I also hate two/too/to mix-ups, and should of/would of/could of instead of should have/would have/could have.

Most people pronounce "could have" and "would have" as contractions: "I could've been a contender." They think they're actually saying "could of" because that's how the contraction sounds.



I understand that, but I just think you have to be an idiot to actually think it's could of and not could have/could've.
Title: Re: am I just crazy or is it all of a sudden ok to spell "lose" as "loose"???
Post by: Candyflip on March 29, 2008, 07:03:20 PM
"I could care less." Omfg :maf :maf :maf :maf
Title: Re: am I just crazy or is it all of a sudden ok to spell "lose" as "loose"???
Post by: Mupepe on March 29, 2008, 07:54:44 PM
"I could care less." Omfg :maf :maf :maf :maf
:maf

"could of" is definitely a peeve.  You can't possibly be that dumb
Title: Re: am I just crazy or is it all of a sudden ok to spell "lose" as "loose"???
Post by: Powerslave on March 29, 2008, 08:40:13 PM
I've noticed posters on this forum typing payed instead paid.

I saw PD doing this yesterday :lol
Title: Re: am I just crazy or is it all of a sudden ok to spell "lose" as "loose"???
Post by: Van Cruncheon on March 29, 2008, 11:53:30 PM
pd is home-schooled
Title: Re: am I just crazy or is it all of a sudden ok to spell "lose" as "loose"???
Post by: Fragamemnon on March 30, 2008, 01:06:53 AM
The internet is rapidly evoling and killing the written English language, this has been pretty clear for some time now.

See stuff like this:

http://gprime.net/flash.php/babby
Title: Re: am I just crazy or is it all of a sudden ok to spell "lose" as "loose"???
Post by: Mandark on March 30, 2008, 01:55:41 AM
For all intensive purposes.


Saw someone type it a few years ago and thought that singled them out for ridicule.  Apparently it's a more and more common mistake.  Seriously, wtf?
Title: Re: am I just crazy or is it all of a sudden ok to spell "lose" as "loose"???
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on March 30, 2008, 03:34:08 AM
I'd accept any amount of lose/loose confusion in exchange for a credible promise from everyone to stop using "literally" to mean "figuratively"

Last month I got into a flamewar over it on a message board devoted to video game soundtracks, which I'm sure is approaching theoretical bounds for dorkiness.  I am also (partly) home-schooled, btw, by my mom who has a political science Ph.D., assigned me Marxist texts to read and wears her grammar nazi uniform with pride.
Title: Re: am I just crazy or is it all of a sudden ok to spell "lose" as "loose"???
Post by: max_cool on March 30, 2008, 04:28:29 AM
common, it's not that bad.

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Title: Re: am I just crazy or is it all of a sudden ok to spell "lose" as "loose"???
Post by: Himu on March 30, 2008, 06:27:51 AM
i fucking hate people who do this shit
Title: Re: am I just crazy or is it all of a sudden ok to spell "lose" as "loose"???
Post by: xnikki118x on March 30, 2008, 11:56:54 PM
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Title: Re: am I just crazy or is it all of a sudden ok to spell "lose" as "loose"???
Post by: Powerslave on March 31, 2008, 01:42:34 AM
loose pussy
Title: Re: am I just crazy or is it all of a sudden ok to spell "lose" as "loose"???
Post by: Crushed on March 31, 2008, 02:20:12 AM
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v233/MastahCrushed/caring.png)

My favorite picture ever, because so many fucking people do not get it.
Title: Re: am I just crazy or is it all of a sudden ok to spell "lose" as "loose"???
Post by: xnikki118x on March 31, 2008, 04:18:38 AM
Nice!
Title: Re: am I just crazy or is it all of a sudden ok to spell "lose" as "loose"???
Post by: T-Short on March 31, 2008, 07:37:46 AM
I am getting increasingly annoyed by the inability to use "its" leading to an abundance of "it's" instead.
Title: Re: am I just crazy or is it all of a sudden ok to spell "lose" as "loose"???
Post by: cloudwalking on March 31, 2008, 07:51:02 AM
http://dictionary.reference.com/help/faq/language/

it's a really nice faq covering the most commonly asked questions about word and grammar usage, spelling, and etymology.
Title: Re: am I just crazy or is it all of a sudden ok to spell "lose" as "loose"???
Post by: Eric P on March 31, 2008, 08:13:01 AM
i think it's because people don't read as much anymore and as such they type as it sounds rather than as it looks.

but i have no evidence with which to back up this supposition
Title: Re: am I just crazy or is it all of a sudden ok to spell "lose" as "loose"???
Post by: T-Short on March 31, 2008, 10:08:21 AM
Yeah its about time people learned it's correct use  :-*

 :cookiem

Title: Re: am I just crazy or is it all of a sudden ok to spell "lose" as "loose"???
Post by: Tauntaun on March 31, 2008, 12:13:01 PM
I'd accept any amount of lose/loose confusion in exchange for a credible promise from everyone to stop using "literally" to mean "figuratively"

Last month I got into a flamewar over it on a message board devoted to video game soundtracks, which I'm sure is approaching theoretical bounds for dorkiness.  I am also (partly) home-schooled, btw, by my mom who has a political science Ph.D., assigned me Marxist texts to read and wears her grammar nazi uniform with pride.

She sounds butch, does she have a mullet and punch men in the dick when she's at the grocery store?
Title: Re: am I just crazy or is it all of a sudden ok to spell "lose" as "loose"???
Post by: xnikki118x on April 01, 2008, 12:35:49 AM
http://dictionary.reference.com/help/faq/language/

it's a really nice faq covering the most commonly asked questions about word and grammar usage, spelling, and etymology.

This one's really great, too. http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/index.html