am I just crazy or is it all of a sudden ok to spell "lose" as "loose"???

[Mupepe]

what the fuck??

[T-Short]

no, that's never ok.

[GilloD]

Its that your/you're bullshit taking another spill through the guardrails on Fuckhead Drive.

[Mupepe]

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??

[Joe Molotov]

Loosen up, don't lose your cool.

[lordmaji]

You know what Mupepe. I was thinking the same exact shit the other day.

Odd that! GET OUT OF MY HEAD!!!

[Flannel Boy]

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.

[xnikki118x]

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.

[Flannel Boy]

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.

[CajoleJuice]

Yea, people that do this are pretty much worse than serial rapists.

[xnikki118x]

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.

[Candyflip]

"I could care less." Omfg

[Mupepe]

"I could care less." Omfg

"could of" is definitely a peeve.  You can't possibly be that dumb

[Powerslave]

I've noticed posters on this forum typing payed instead paid.

I saw PD doing this yesterday

[Van Cruncheon]

pd is home-schooled

[Fragamemnon]

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

[Mandark]

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?

[recursivelyenumerable]

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.

[max_cool]

common, it's not that bad.

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[Himu]

i fucking hate people who do this shit

[xnikki118x]

[Powerslave]

loose pussy

[Crushed]

My favorite picture ever, because so many fucking people do not get it.

[xnikki118x]

Nice!

[T-Short]

I am getting increasingly annoyed by the inability to use "its" leading to an abundance of "it's" instead.

[cloudwalking]

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.

[Eric P]

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

[T-Short]

Yeah its about time people learned it's correct use 

 

[Tauntaun]

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?

[xnikki118x]

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