Loose v Lose

Sorry, but you're WRONG. It is LOOSE. Way to confuse everyone.

Are you being serious?

Yes 100%

"I want to loose weight" always makes me think "loosen" - I suddenly get this image of someone sort of hula-hooping their love handles and other extra bits into a "freely swinging" mode in order to just pluck them off their hips manually. Actually looks fun!

And while we're at it: you "weigh" a certain amount of pounds, which makes up your "weight"...

And to those who feel "policed":

I am a foreigner. English is my third language. I spent time in school having to learn the difference. Reading it wrong time and time again makes te wrong "word image" look familiar and endangers my own correct and hard-earned spelling.

Nobody wants to bully people with dyslexia. It's called drawing their attention to a common mistake. Since people with dyslexia have to sort of learn by heart words with the spelling letter by letter, it is especially not fair to them to let it go unmentioned.

so, "loosen up"!!! ; )


BTW: What a tough life, being dyslexic AND overweight! ; ) (Oooohhhhhhhh, this will earn me no end of abuse, I bet...)

I think some people need to realise that there is a lot of people with spelling difficulty s i.e. special needs and dyslexia, also people from a poorer class background are not as educated as others so some people have a problem and find it very frustrating trying to spell, most people might say its common sense but I think it's nasty the way people can bully other people and be nasty because they don't right 100% . Picking on someone's intelligence is just like me picking on your weight so think about it the next time you feel the need to be nasty it's not nice getting bullied!!!! Also there's most prob a million spelling mistakes in there but IM NOT ASSED :laugh: :drinker:

Wow, "poorer class people are not as educated as others"? As other what, rich people? I know plenty of rich people that are not very well education and plenty of poor that are. I lived most of my life below the poverty line and am now working on my Masters degree and after that my Doctorate? Was there a rule I missed somewhere?

I live in that class I live on an easte where boys and girls don't work everyone's on benefits there drinking an fighting most nights an all dropped out of school at 13 so yes there is about a 2 in 10 chance that's people won't go to college or work and most people don't get a 2nd chance and for anyone that wants to have a dig I am educated no I don't work but my partner does an no I'm not on benefits!

Um, how many times I have seen this topic, again? At least three times a month, at least.

You're gonna get in trouble! You're gonna get in trouble! You're gonna get in trouble!



Anyhow, I support you in your fight to end misused homonyms.

(But still, you're probably going to get a strike/warning for this. BTDT.)

I don't get overly worked up about it, but since the thread is here anyway.......

If you've made yourself a new workout regimen, that's what it is - - - a regimen - - - not a regiment nor a regime.

I will just say this. I really think it has zero to do with economic class, intellect, or education. Some find English/spelling/grammar very easy and others struggle with it. Because they struggle with it means nothing. They may be brilliant mathamatically or have the ability to paint the most beautiful painting you can only imagine. People have strengths and weaknesses. So what. That's what makes each of us special and have value in our own way. Be grateful you have a great ability with grammar and spelling and don't pick on those who don't. It means nothing. And chances are your correcting them will not make them remember to spell it correctly the next time. And it really does not matter anyway!

this is what I should of said hahah but in the economic class I'm going of my own experience I live somewhere where ther is probly a handful of people going out to work in the morning like I said I don't work but I have tried to get a job and can't so I will be volunteering in my local children's centre until my experience is enough to get a job! And I have got bad grammar but I have 3 as in science and level 1 2 and 3 in business even though I'm such a bad speller it is ad habits with me

While I don't think that correcting others publicly is particularly good etiquette, what shocks me is that some people stand by their incorrect grammar and spelling. I really don't understand why someone wouldn't want to spell or write something correctly.

If we're just going to ignore them, why bother having rules for spelling and grammar at all? We might as well just throw out all the rules and write however we want to.

For that matter, let's throw out all the driving laws and drive however we want to, also.

Oh, wait. That already happened.

Actually, I could care less! (Another misused assortment of words)

thank you. This drives me crazy.

How about 'protein' vs 'protien'

/sigh

I will just say this. I really think it has zero to do with economic class, intellect, or education. Some find English/spelling/grammar very easy and others struggle with it. Because they struggle with it means nothing. They may be brilliant mathamatically or have the ability to paint the most beautiful painting you can only imagine. People have strengths and weaknesses. So what. That's what makes each of us special and have value in our own way.

I agree with this. But I also think that when we as a society classify people, it creates discouragement to achieve great heights at whatever is your specialty or gift. People should be encouraged to seek improvement and nourish their gifts despite their circumstance, background, family, etc.

My mom once told me that loose women lose weight the old fashioned way.

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:laugh: That's great!

I will just say this. I really think it has zero to do with economic class, intellect, or education. Some find English/spelling/grammar very easy and others struggle with it. Because they struggle with it means nothing. They may be brilliant mathamatically or have the ability to paint the most beautiful painting you can only imagine. People have strengths and weaknesses. So what. That's what makes each of us special and have value in our own way.

I agree with this. I also think that when we as a society classify people, it creates discouragement to achieve great heights at whatever is your specialty or gift. People should be encouraged to seek improvement and nourish their gifts despite their circumstance, background, family, etc.

Yes exactly. Each person is gifted in a different way. I had one son that struggled and struggled with spelling in school. But guess what, when he was five years old he was tearing things apart and putting them back together. He is brilliant mechanically. IQ is actually quite high. He just cannot spell. So what? Find your gifting and abilities and nourish those. What if everyone had perfect spelling and grammar but could not do difficult math equations? Do you think our bridges and builidings could stand and not fall? Of course not, it takes someone good at math to figure out how much concrete is needed, how deep to make the foundation etc. And more than likely those engineers designing those buildings and bridges are horrible spellers. So what! I've known many a brilliant person that cannot spell to save their own life. So what?

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