It's LOSE people L-O-S-E

[HammBugga]

Not L-O-O-S-E. That spells loose. Like "His tie was too loose" or "She was too loose with her lips". If you want to say "All it takes to LOSE weight is will power" {bullshit} or "He was afraid he would lose the race" it is L-O-S-E.

Sorry, I hate reading loose in place of lose.

Definition of LOOSE (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/loose)

Definition of LOSE (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/lose)

[Monkeytoes]

ETA: Never mind.. I see what you were saying.

[PrincessEmilysMommy]

You tell em Hamm!

[Sputterduck]

lol

[Bohemian]

Your so smart, be careful it doesn't go all to you're head. If it does their are counciling programs to help with that.

















:p
You may actually need counseling if I continue to type like that! ;)

[HammBugga]

Noooooo!!! Not counciling!!!

[JudyJudyJudy]

Thank you.

[JudyJudyJudy]

If you don't want counciling, try canceling.

[cc1003]

Thank you Hamm. Maybe you could also teach on your, you're.

[Monkeytoes]

Thank you Hamm. Maybe you could also teach on your, you're.

I am bad at this one, I think it's more out of laziness. :p

[HammBugga]

I am bad at this one, I think it's more out of laziness. :p


They're, their, Monkey...It'll be OK.

:P

[Now_serving_number4]

Posts like this make me feel like I should not be posting. I know I use 80% of common words wrong or miss-spell them. I hate to think that I am driving people crazy but honestly with no more than a 5th grade education it's super hard for me at times. I'm not proud of what little ed. I do have, I also know it's not my fault. I was just a child, how was I to know I have something wrong with me. And damn the school and my parents for just thinking I was lazy and stupid. ( sorry, just needed to get that out).

I am trying and I do think I have come a long way. And I am proud to say I do not use the words lose and loose the wrong way lol.

[Sputterduck]

Posts like this make me feel like I should not be posting. I know I use 80% of common words wrong or miss-spell them. I hate to think that I am driving people crazy but honestly with no more than a 5th grade education it's super hard for me at times. I'm not proud of what little ed. I do have, I also know it's not my fault. I was just a child, how was I to know I have something wrong with me. And damn the school and my parents for just thinking I was lazy and stupid. ( sorry, just needed to get that out).

I am trying and I do think I have come a long way. And I am proud to say I do not use the words lose and loose the wrong way lol.


I haven't ever noticed a problem with your posts. :)

[Funmommy]

Neither have I. :D

[JustMoi]

Thank you. It bugs the hell out of me to see that too!

[still_me]

"thcatfight" For fark's sake. You could have just pm'd me cuz I wouldn't of noticed unless you did.

[Now_serving_number4]

Oh when I first started posting here ( I was new to computers and barely knew how to use one) It drove everyone here crazy and man did I hear about it. Some posters even were kind enough to teach me how to type and taught me how to spell certain words. I'm sure some origanal posters will remember. IT was 4 years ago though. Trust me when I say I have come a long way. Posting here has taught me so much.

[MiMi_of_4]

I'm glad you're here, Fluffy!

[cc1003]

I haven't ever noticed a problem with your posts. :)


I haven't either and everyone makes grammatical errors occasionally. I think though that Hamm said it in a polite way. She wasn't calling anyone stupid or anything. I don't mind being corrected when it comes to grammar. Typos will happen to everyone but it doesn't hurt to learn something new!:)

[Now_serving_number4]

Oh I know she did not call anyone stuid and I'm not upset with her at all, It's just makes me feel self conceous about my LD. KWIM?

[Now_serving_number4]

I'm glad you're here, Fluffy!

"thheart"

[JudyJudyJudy]

This may not seem fair, but misspelled words and improper grammar don't bother me in fluff threads, but it's hard to take someone seriously in a debate when the person is constantly misspelling words and using improper grammar.

[still_me]

This may not seem fair, but misspelled words and improper grammar don't bother me in fluff threads, but it's hard to take someone seriously in a debate when the person is constantly misspelling words and using improper grammar.


I must annoy you all the time then. lol I know my punctuation is horrible too. For some reason that always was a sticking point for me in English. I could get symbolism and foreshadowing without a problem and dive deep into the book, but I still suck at punctuation.

[Babyblue]

I do this all the time.

[MiMi_of_4]

This may not seem fair, but misspelled words and improper grammar don't bother me in fluff threads, but it's hard to take someone seriously in a debate when the person is constantly misspelling words and using improper grammar.

I can overlook misspelled words and improper grammar in others' posts, too, but it freakin' drives me up the wall to see one of my posts with an error in it ~ especially if it's quoted before I get it corrected.

I agree with you about the debate threads, as well. While I might notice the occasional misspelled word, incorrect usage, or a missed punctuation mark, continuously making the same error(s) diminishes the person's argument, in my mind.

[MiMi_of_4]

I must annoy you all the time then. lol I know my punctuation is horrible too. For some reason that always was a sticking point for me in English. I could get symbolism and foreshadowing without a problem and dive deep into the book, but I still suck at punctuation.

TBH, I've never noticed it!

[still_me]

Huh. It must be so nice to be so perfect.
















:P Just kidding.

[still_me]

TBH, I've never noticed it!


Really? Maybe it isn't as bad as I think it is. It is that or someone will come along and be like, 'Oh no. It is as bad as you think it is.' LOL

I don't care though. *shrug* Ms. High and Mighty horse rider needs to be wrong sometimes.

[JudyJudyJudy]

I must annoy you all the time then. lol I know my punctuation is horrible too. For some reason that always was a sticking point for me in English. I could get symbolism and foreshadowing without a problem and dive deep into the book, but I still suck at punctuation.
Your posts have never bothered me.


I can overlook misspelled words and improper grammar in others' posts, too, but it freakin' drives me up the wall to see one of my posts with an error in it ~ especially if it's quoted before I get it corrected.
ITA! I'm afraid I'm going to screw up in this thread. :p

[MiMi_of_4]

still_me, maybe I don't notice your errors because your arguments are written better than others...or maybe it's just because I like you ~ grin ~

I hear you, Judy! I proofread my first post three times before I clicked to send it!

[Sputterduck]

I never proofread my posts... I always end up editing them due to typos. lol

[MiMi_of_4]

Oh, I always proofread them, and then half the time have to edit to correct an error I missed anyway.

[Babyhellfire]

I have a really crappy keyboard( I still have to C&P to get a k- and a few other letters are wonky).. and I also tend to write a bit like I speak, bad grammar and all. The hardest thin with typoing words like loose when i meant on O- (or similar) I can't really on spell check to tell me I messed it up , HA!

[still_me]

Damn it. I was all exciting that I got to be Ms. High and Mighty horse rider. :hugegrin: I still think I am going to get a kids book about punctuation and nail it before DS1 schools me.

[Babyhellfire]

Case in point. I meant thing- not thin.

[HammBugga]

Fluffy, this thread was meant lightheartedly. I usually could not care less when someone misspells something or isn't grammatically correct. I am sure I am guilty of that a lot as well. It's just something about reading the word "loose" where it should be "lose" that bugs me. It's more a character flaw on my part that I can't read it the way it was intended. Something compels me to read it as the word that was actually typed and not the word I know they meant.

At any rate, I am sorry if it made you feel bad. That was not my intention, at all.

[BeanBabies]

My big one is "I could care less". I was so happy to see that you said it correctly! "lol9"

[SingingMom]

We all have things that bother us. Mine is "orientate". The word used to be "orient". "She oriented herself with respect to the sun". Now it has an extra, completely superfluous syllable.

Why? I think just because it sounds niftier to say or something.

Similarly, shouldn't "inflammable" mean "doesn't catch fire easily"? After all, "flammable" is pretty clear in meaning. But now, folks say "inflammable"to mean "flammable".

And, after a while, the dictionary goes with common usage. "Orientate" appears in dictionaries now.

I am not particularly upset with grammar or spelling errors in posts, although like anyone else, I enjoy clear and precise writing. I certainly appreciate the efforts many posters make in proofreading.

[Sputterduck]

Similarly, shouldn't "inflammable" mean "doesn't catch fire easily"? After all, "flammable" is pretty clear in meaning. But now, folks say "inflammable"to mean "flammable".


Get. Out. Seriously?

I hope I never hear that one.

[JudyJudyJudy]

Get. Out. Seriously?

I hope I never hear that one.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/inflammable

[cream_city]

Not L-O-O-S-E. That spells loose. Like "His tie was too loose" or "She was too loose with her lips". If you want to say "All it takes to LOSE weight is will power" {bullshit} or "He was afraid he would lose the race" it is L-O-S-E.

Sorry, I hate reading loose in place of lose.

Definition of LOOSE (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/loose)

Definition of LOSE (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/lose)

THANK YOU. "Loose/lose" is one of my biggest pet peeves.

[hidesome]

In my neighborhood, folks say, "looosserrr". Eho.

[Justicedog]

Huh. It must be so nice to be so perfect.
















:P Just kidding.


Not Hamm, but, yes, it is.

[QuiltyConscience]

My peeve is when people add endings that aren't necessary, to try to sound professional.

I had a boss who would refer to us as " certificated Interpreters" . No, Certified. Certified is sufficient.

She would say " That song was Interpretated beautifully" instead of "Interpreted beautifully"


That drove me bananas. She wanted to make us t shirts for after school activities that said "Interpretators" . Luckily, I talked her out of dropping down to "Interpreter".

My BFF and I made shirts for our kids that said " InterpreTator Tots" just to be funny.

[married_bears]

Thanks for learning us the English speak. I needs lotsa help.

[still_me]

My friend says "talk American" I kid you not.

ETA: As in, "I don't get how they grew up here, but can't talk American" :nono:

[SingingMom]

That seems right to me. After all, we don't speak at all like the British. It seems unfair to call it English.

[Justicedog]

My friend says "talk American" I kid you not.

ETA: As in, "I don't get how they grew up here, but can't talk American" :nono:


I understand this as I have a peeve about Americans, in the US, using "English" spellings for things. Really, no one thinks you're more multicultural or cool if you go to a theatre to see a movie in colour.

[SingingMom]

Ah, I plead guilty to this. I grew up reading all sorts of English novels and I have been guilty of using the English spellings; it was just more familiar.

I try to restrain myself, however. I realize it isn't what others are most familiar with.

[Sputterduck]

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/inflammable


Ach.

[still_me]

I understand this as I have a peeve about Americans, in the US, using "English" spellings for things. Really, no one thinks you're more multicultural or cool if you go to a theatre to see a movie in colour.


lol. Sometimes I write out behaviour because when I went to school in Canada, the spell check would underline the American way of spelling words. I still catch myself writing that way.

SingingMom That seems right to me. After all, we don't speak at all like the British. It seems unfair to call it English.

See, that would make sense to me if English was really called British. Like when you go to Quebec people speak French, not Canadian French, even though it is a little different from France French. It is known as English across the world. It just seems a tad arrogant to me.

[QuiltyConscience]

I admit I like the look of "Valour" "Honour" and "colour" more than "valor" "honor"or "color".

I don't count those sorts of things as spelled wrong.

but someone goes through a hard time, and I threw a ball.

[Shaunsmom]

Not L-O-O-S-E. That spells loose. Like "His tie was too loose" or "She was too loose with her lips". If you want to say "All it takes to LOSE weight is will power" {bullshit} or "He was afraid he would lose the race" it is L-O-S-E.

Sorry, I hate reading loose in place of lose.

Definition of LOOSE (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/loose)

Definition of LOSE (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/lose)

What about these?? lol

You're vs. your
Were vs. wear vs. where
They're vs. their vs. there

Oh I think theyres more but I ain't got the time to find em and type em all up. lol! (I do know the right there to use in that sentence, just being silly)

[Iconoclast]

I taught a high school science class a few years ago on a lark. I got in major hot water for trying to get high school seniors to spell their, there, and they're correctly. Seriously, parent-teacher meetings, prinicpal consults, etc. Come to find out later, the Mom making the biggest stink about my harrassment of her poor put upon son was actually the one doing the kids homework. The spelling mistakes were hers, hence the vitriol. :D

Loose/lose really has been irking me, but I can't spell restaurant w/o looking it up so I don't cast stones.

[JudyJudyJudy]

That seems right to me. After all, we don't speak at all like the British. It seems unfair to call it English.
I disagree. More specifically, we speak and write American English, but it's still English.

Do you also think it's unfair to say that Latin Americans speak Spanish?

[SingingMom]

I think I should have added a wink. ;)

I do think that the English spoken by most Americans has diverged rather a lot from what was once known as standard English. Also, I don't see anything wrong with identifying our common dialect as "American". It's not an insult.

We have some dialects that are very difficult for non-speakers to understand. For instance, my family moved to West Virginia when I was a young teen. My mother could not understand what many people said to her. I acted as her interpreter on many an occasion.

Similarly, Spanish as spoken in some areas has little resemblance to the language people speak in Spain. Eventually, yes, I think it will cross some imaginary line and become its own language. California Spanish is a far cry from the Spanish I learned as a child in Miami. The grammar and syntax is changing. People say "Yo gusto" instead of "Me gusta" now. Words like "hamburger" and "computer" are sneaking in- and not as "computadora" and "hamburgesa". People are saying "computer" and "amburger".

I haven't spent any time in Latin America. So I can't address that- but I suspect that probably Latin Americans are speaking Spanish more grammatically than my neighbors.

[JudyJudyJudy]

The grammar and syntax is changing. People say "Yo gusto" instead of "Me gusta" now.
Dh never says the former.


Words like "hamburger" and "computer" are sneaking in- and not as "computadora" and "hamburgesa". People are saying "computer" and "amburger".
We call that Spanglish. Just because someone says it doesn't make it correct. Southerners, both whites and blacks, have used incorrect grammar and syntax for centuries, but it doesn't mean that we have created a new language. We're still taught "standard" American English in school. The same is true for Spanish (some teach Castilian; some teach Latin American Spanish; etc.).


I haven't spent any time in Latin America. So I can't address that- but I suspect that probably Latin Americans are speaking Spanish more grammatically than my neighbors.
It depends. They have their slang as well, in some areas more so than others. Their language is just not typically combined with English words.

I was reading one of Obama's books, and some of the kids in Kenya who have been raised around different languages speak a combination of English, German, Luo, and Swahili. It doesn't make it correct, though.

[SingingMom]

Well, sure, just because someone says it doesn't make it correct. But as we previously discussed, after a number of years of usage, a misused word will end up in the dictionary. Like "orientate".

And I never say "Yo gusto" either. But some other people do, and the usage is growing. I have heard it with my own, slightly shocked, ears. Of course, even here in CA there isn't a single Spanish dialect. But to call it "Spanglish" is really validating its existence as in independent patois!

Southerners, indeed, have a dialect all their own, with its own internal grammar and usage. And so do Cajuns. And so do many others have their own regional dialects. As long as everyone can more or less communicate with everyone else, we seem to be able to maintain a common dialect. But even that grows and changes.

I feel that the many dialects we own in this nation are part of the richness that we enjoy. So many of them come from other languages, bring little tastes of other cultures to us. I'm not overly committed to "correctness" save in business or legal milieus. Sure, kids need to be taught "Standard English" in school, but I don't want everyone to stop speaking their regional dialects.

And American "Standard English" is not exactly British English, either. It is not solely a matter of accent, but also of word choice and usage.

I was reading one of Obama's books, and some of the kids in Kenya who have been raised around different languages speak a combination of English, German, Luo, and Swahili. It doesn't make it correct, though.

It's not exactly incorrect, either. Are the kids able to speak any of those languages intelligibly, or are they restricted to their patois?

[Shaunsmom]

My boss is obsessed with apostrophes (does that need an apostrophe between the e and s at the end?). (oh wait, is apostrophe even spelled right?? lol!)

She doesn't know how to use them for the most part and they're strewn around in her memo's to us, in "official" letters to our employee base...gosh, so much more- it's really not funny.

She'll ask for one of us to "proofread" her writing and we know enough now to bypass the apostrophe stuff. I mean, if she wants to continue with them all over the place, so be it.

[Sym]

Wow, such grammarpolice over here.


Imma prolly hafta get edjumacated to post 'round hear.

[Michele]

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j255/mlsbeth/IMG_0062-2.jpg

The Grammatrix is very concerned about the number of careless errors on this board.

Loose/lose
You're/your
Their/there/their

Learn them lest the Grammatrix punish you.

[cc1003]

I taught a high school science class a few years ago on a lark. I got in major hot water for trying to get high school seniors to spell their, there, and they're correctly. Seriously, parent-teacher meetings, prinicpal consults, etc. Come to find out later, the Mom making the biggest stink about my harrassment of her poor put upon son was actually the one doing the kids homework. The spelling mistakes were hers, hence the vitriol. :D

Loose/lose really has been irking me, but I can't spell restaurant w/o looking it up so I don't cast stones.

I have a hell of a time with restaurant too.

[Sadalsuud]

I find all of the grammar mistakes very appauling. ;)

[MiMi_of_4]

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j255/mlsbeth/IMG_0062-2.jpg

The Grammatrix is very concerned about the number of careless errors on this board.

Loose/lose
You're/your
Their/there/their

Learn them lest the Grammatrix punish you.

Don't you mean they're? :p

[Michele]

Don't you mean they're? :p

Mimi, I love you! I was waiting for someone to catch it! I bet Dh $5 someone would in the first 5 replies. I am $5 richer. Sweet.

(I just realized how exciting our Friday nights are around here. Pretty sad, eh?)

[QuiltyConscience]

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j255/mlsbeth/IMG_0062-2.jpg

The Grammatrix is very concerned about the number of careless errors on this board.

Loose/lose
You're/your
Their/there/their


Learn them lest the Grammatrix punish you.

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f244/mamacatelliott/bfcom/Smileys/mrsbeasley.gif


OMG SYM SAID PROLLY!!! Get her!

[MiMi_of_4]

Mimi, I love you! I was waiting for someone to catch it! I bet Dh $5 someone would in the first 5 replies. I am $5 richer. Sweet.

(I just realized how exciting our Friday nights are around here. Pretty sad, eh?)

:happy:

You DO realize if you wager bets on posts here, the person who helps you win the bet shares in the profit, right? Time to fork over my half of that $5.00, Missy! :p

Few grammatical errors escape my eye and most of the time I simply ignore them, but that one was too :gig: to pass up!

[The_Market]

Advice and Advise is my pet peeve.