Grammar police! Your clothes get LOOSE when you LOSE weight.

McLifterPants
McLifterPants Posts: 457 Member
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You are not "loosing" weight. You are "losing" weight. "Loose" is how your clothes fit when you are successful in this endeavor.

I see this mistake about 100 times per day, and if I didn't get this off my chest now I was afraid that my head would explode :explode:

That is all! You may return to what you were doing :heart:
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  • MalSponseller
    MalSponseller Posts: 217 Member
    -pets OP- It's okay, I feel your pain. Grad student of lit currently. One day, the whole English-speaking world will learn, or so we can hope.
  • jadedzen
    jadedzen Posts: 221 Member
    their, they're, there :)
  • McLifterPants
    McLifterPants Posts: 457 Member
    their, they're, there :)

    :flowerforyou:
  • ElizaRoche
    ElizaRoche Posts: 2,005 Member
    sighs............ again this thread?????
  • tanias001
    tanias001 Posts: 41 Member
    what drives me insane is the way some english as from England spell. I could sit here all day corrcting their grammar, it just does my head in. Pity i don't get paid for corrrecting grammar mistakes. lol.
  • Stompp
    Stompp Posts: 216
    The scary part is that if enough people adopt the incorrect version, wouldn't it by default become the popular "correct" version over time? *shudder* :sad:
  • Drenched_N_Motivation
    Drenched_N_Motivation Posts: 1,004 Member
    sighs............ again this thread?????


    You only need 3 dots for an ellipsis.
  • bm99
    bm99 Posts: 597 Member
    what drives me insane is the way some english as from England spell. I could sit here all day corrcting their grammar, it just does my head in. Pity i don't get paid for corrrecting grammar mistakes. lol.

    I am shocked by your ignorance.
  • MysticMaiden22
    MysticMaiden22 Posts: 324 Member
    Something I plan on telling my boyfriend this week:

    "You had me at the correct usage of 'you're.'"

    haha
  • BetterThanExpected
    BetterThanExpected Posts: 104 Member
    Yep. "Loosing weight" and "thights" are the most common spelling mistakes on weight loss forums, it seems.
  • cloud2011
    cloud2011 Posts: 898 Member
    delete.
  • JMeka
    JMeka Posts: 26
    what drives me insane is the way some english as from England spell. I could sit here all day corrcting their grammar, it just does my head in. Pity i don't get paid for corrrecting grammar mistakes. lol.

    I am shocked by your ignorance.

    I second your comment bm99. This level of verbal diarrhoea shocks me at times.
  • MyHighestPraise
    MyHighestPraise Posts: 87 Member
    what drives me insane is the way some english as from England spell. I could sit here all day corrcting their grammar, it just does my head in. Pity i don't get paid for corrrecting grammar mistakes. lol.

    I am shocked by your ignorance.

    ^^^ THIS! Wow...
  • GodsGirl37
    GodsGirl37 Posts: 348
    that is one of my biggest pet peeves people who do the grammar police deal. it really annoys me! of course in my neck of the woods we speak red neck.
  • Turtlehurdle
    Turtlehurdle Posts: 412
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  • _TastySnoBalls_
    _TastySnoBalls_ Posts: 1,298 Member
    what drives me insane is the way some english as from England spell. I could sit here all day corrcting their grammar, it just does my head in. Pity i don't get paid for corrrecting grammar mistakes. lol.

    I am shocked by your ignorance.

    ^^^^this^^^
  • thebaconbeast
    thebaconbeast Posts: 560 Member
    You are not "loosing" weight. You are "losing" weight. "Loose" is how your clothes fit when you are successful in this endeavor.

    I see this mistake about 100 times per day, and if I didn't get this off my chest now I was afraid that my head would explode :explode:

    That is all! You may return to what you were doing :heart:

    If you were in the UK there would be a problem with the spelling in this paragraph... :laugh:
  • weeblex
    weeblex Posts: 412 Member
    You are not "loosing" weight. You are "losing" weight. "Loose" is how your clothes fit when you are successful in this endeavor.

    I see this mistake about 100 times per day, and if I didn't get this off my chest now I was afraid that my head would explode :explode:

    That is all! You may return to what you were doing :heart:

    If you were in the UK there would be a problem with the spelling in this paragraph... :laugh:

    Which is odd because they want to include U in everything else :bigsmile:
  • jonward85
    jonward85 Posts: 534 Member
    that is one of my biggest pet peeves people who do the grammar police deal. it really annoys me! of course in my neck of the woods we speak red neck.


    You can speak redneck and still use proper grammar while typing. I am a fluent speaker of all things redneck as well.
  • elelat
    elelat Posts: 117
    BAD GRAMMAR IN THE WEB IS LIKE HAVING BAD BREATH IN RL
  • myofibril
    myofibril Posts: 4,500 Member
    Speak for yourself.

    I am actually loosing weight.

    By that I mean I am making the stored triglycerides in my fat cells looser by way of a calorie deficit created by way of a hypocaloric diet and exercise resulting in their release from adipose tissue and their transformation through lipolysis into free fatty acids and glycerol.

    <<<<<< HTH
  • muddyventures
    muddyventures Posts: 360 Member
    sighs............ again this thread?????

    I think a little grace is required.
  • autumnk921
    autumnk921 Posts: 1,374 Member
    Something I plan on telling my boyfriend this week:

    "You had me at the correct usage of 'you're.'"

    haha


    This is definitely me...When I am chatting with someone and they don't know the proper use/spelling of words I cringe and it's hard to keep communicating with them...It may sound terrible but it's just the way I am...I am pretty laid back but when it comes to this I am anal...lol

    ETA: But I am not the type to correct them on it though...I am NOT the grammar police!!
  • Jules2Be
    Jules2Be Posts: 2,238 Member
    My clothes get LOOSE when i drink too much tequila.
  • Pennapenguin
    Pennapenguin Posts: 33 Member
    In addition to the grammar mistakes you are pointing out and are annoying......maybe learning to spell would be good too.
  • SmexAppeal
    SmexAppeal Posts: 858 Member
    what drives me insane is the way some english as from England spell. I could sit here all day corrcting their grammar, it just does my head in. Pity i don't get paid for corrrecting grammar mistakes. lol.

    I am shocked by your ignorance.

    I second your comment bm99. This level of verbal diarrhoea shocks me at times.

    I as well agree!! That's just insulting. We aren't talking different culture barriers, we are talking dumb azzes that just don't know the proper way to use words. The Engish... as in England, as you put it, speak in a more proper form than we ever will. just because they use 'u' in a lot of words, doesn't make them wrong!
    I personally find it super attractive when a man knows how to spell and use the English language correctly!
  • thebaconbeast
    thebaconbeast Posts: 560 Member
    My clothes get LOOSE when i drink too much tequila.

    *Slides tequila shot to Jules.*
  • elelat
    elelat Posts: 117
    what drives me insane is the way some english as from England spell. I could sit here all day corrcting their grammar, it just does my head in. Pity i don't get paid for corrrecting grammar mistakes. lol.

    When I was a kid my father pay me 5 cents for every grammar mistake I could find in the newspaper.... my mother for several reasons hated that he did that. BTW I grew up speaking Spanish.
  • eduardo_d
    eduardo_d Posts: 85 Member
    their, they're, there :)

    <smirk>
  • SmexAppeal
    SmexAppeal Posts: 858 Member
    In addition to the grammar mistakes you are pointing out and are annoying......maybe learning to spell would be good too.

    Wow, this sentence doesn't even make any sense. Just saying.

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