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edew · 08-01-2006, 03:15 AM

Loose (lew-sss): adj., not tight, unconfined, in the open, unrestrained.
Lose (lewz): vb., opposite of win; opposite of find. Misplacing an item. Not winning an event. Past tense is lost.
Loss (lahss): noun., a negative net in income; opposite of gain. The result of losing.

There. Hope this helps out at least in this forum.

epeeisky · 08-01-2006, 03:41 AM

This is how my beloved English teacher would explain the difference to anyone who missused the words in a paper:

Your mother is loose.
Did you lose your mind?
You just lost a letter grade, and you will lose all arguments to get that letter grade back.

Her little notes in the margin of a paper were always snide and didactic. I never made the same mistake twice.

JackOfHearts · 08-01-2006, 05:15 AM

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Originally Posted by epeeisky

Her little notes in the margin of a paper were always snide and didactic. I never made the same mistake twice.

I bet it was hard to come up with new mistakes to see if you can make her run out of comments, eh?

I had a few friends that tried that. I'm going to have to see if I can track down their papers.

snarsdale · 08-01-2006, 01:14 PM

People should also learn the difference between
your (possessive) and
you're (you are)
not to mention yore (archaic)

KD5MDK · 08-01-2006, 02:02 PM

To quote Bob the angry sunflower:
"IT'S ISN'T POSSESSIVE!"

telkanuru · 08-01-2006, 02:18 PM

My personal pet peeves are "cant", "can't" and "Kant"...

My grammatical love is the proper use of the Perfect Passive Paraphrastic.

seven6ty · 08-01-2006, 02:37 PM

Is "wrt" supposed to be a word or something?

RITFencing · 08-01-2006, 02:38 PM

With Respect To

seven6ty · 08-01-2006, 03:14 PM

Damnit! I thought I was gonna bust him on his misspelling of "with", in his own bad spelling thread... Nuts.

RITFencing · 08-01-2006, 03:16 PM

Poor 760... the path fo your life is strewn with cowpats fromt he Devil's own herd.

Five Rings · 08-01-2006, 04:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by snarsdale

People should also learn the difference between
your (possessive) and
you're (you are)
not to mention yore (archaic)

Not to mention:

They
They're
Their
Theirs
Thier (plain 'ol can't spell)

parrythis · 08-01-2006, 04:35 PM

... and my favorites:

you're - a contraction of "you are" - as in, "You're going to have a drink?"

and

your - adjective indicating possesion - as in, "You spilled your drink."

D'Artag-NOT · 08-01-2006, 04:40 PM

My pet peeve: "breath" used as a verb, as in, "I can't breath". It's breathe, people--"breath" is a noun.

seven6ty · 08-01-2006, 05:09 PM

Breathe sounds so, so...

British though.

KD5MDK · 08-01-2006, 06:10 PM

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Originally Posted by RITFencing

With Respect To

I always expand it as "With Regard To", but I suppose either is acceptable.

glowstix · 08-01-2006, 08:16 PM

don't forget: "would of" where the correct term is "would have"; "won" instead of "one" and vice versa; i don't know which one is more irritating,

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epeeisky · 08-02-2006, 03:23 AM

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Originally Posted by JackOfHearts

I bet it was hard to come up with new mistakes to see if you can make her run out of comments, eh?

I had a few friends that tried that. I'm going to have to see if I can track down their papers.

No, I tried to not make mistakes because every time she made a comment your grade went down significantly. However, many people in my class got the full spectrum of her little sayings. She hated grading papers so she had to make it fun for herself, or she would of killed a few of us.

Phaeton · 08-02-2006, 04:12 AM

"It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word." - Andrew Jackson.

If somone atleast tries to make sure a post isn't completely wrong in terms of spelling and grammar it doens't bother me all that much. Even Shakespeare didn't spell everything the same way every time.

Inquartata · 08-02-2006, 05:36 AM

Yes, but that was before the language became standardized.

Also, most people perpetrating solecisms these days are not Shakespeares, any more than most painters these days are Picassos. Rather, they are just lazy and careless, or else ignorami.

Gav · 08-02-2006, 05:43 AM

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ignorami

Tut - it's ignorati!

Ignorami is the business of destroying people's ability to think. Think Reality TV and you have a good example.

* "a lobotomy for the masses". The problem is that, if you know what Reality TV is, you have probably already had you frontal lobe whisked and are thus incapable of knowing what Reality TV is.