Its lose not loose

You lost your pants?

lose weight

loose pants

Thank you! That one does my nut in.

Damn, I am guilty of that. :blushing:

Oh, for the record, it is "it's" not its....

lose weight

loose pants

I love it, grammar police making its own mistake buy using "its" instead of the it's, while trying to point out someone's mistake. (it's is short for it is, its refers to ownership, it owns)
:laugh: :laugh: you should be embarrassed :blushing:

lose weight

loose pants

I love it, grammar police making its own mistake buy using "its" instead of the it's, while trying to point out someone's mistake. (it's is short for it is, its referees to ownership, it owns)
:laugh: :laugh: you should be embarrassed :blushing:

Thanks Dan, now I have been discredited. No one will know if I am right or not and will go back to misusing the words.

Yep. Your fish looks a little smaller now in person. Not as big as in one your story. lol

Oh, for the record, it is "it's" not its....

LoL Good call ;o)

LOL

Oops, forgot to add my own reply...

That aside, if we're building a pedants' playground here, may I point out that "buy" should have been "by"? And "referees" should have been "refers" ? (Although perhaps we'll need our own referee if this playful scrap turns ugly.)

I do believe the punctuation mark goes inside the quotes.....it should have been "by?", not "by"?, and "refers?", not "refers"?

Haha. Grammar Nazis are out in force today!

I have said it before and I say it again: This is another major dumbing down of the human race. Computers, spellcheckers and a failing educational system have led us here. Until this site has a spell checker, please revert to your spelling skills that you were supposed to learn in the fourth grade. Barring that, type your posts in Gaelic (no offense to my Scottish friends) and no one will ever know.

I am guilty of misspelling words, everyone is I think. But this is a 'written' medium and the lack of education in the written language is ever apparent.

We are all supposed to be adults on here and as such we should have some basic grasp of the English language.

:flowerforyou: It is not a crime to not know how to spell but it is a crying shame.:flowerforyou:

You could cut and paste your post to some word processor and spell check it if you can't spell. :flowerforyou:

It would be nice if this site had a spell checker, and allowed you to edit your topic titles.

I hope I have spelled something incorrectly here to prove I am human too.

WTFC, not everyone cares about spelling and grammer errors, as long as you know what they are talking about why bring it up?

Maybe we could just revert back to grunting and pointing.

Oops, forgot to add my own reply...

That aside, if we're building a pedants' playground here, may I point out that "buy" should have been "by"? And "referees" should have been "refers" ? (Although perhaps we'll need our own referee if this playful scrap turns ugly.)

I do believe the punctuation mark goes inside the quotes.....it should have been "by?", not "by"?, and "refers?", not "refers"?

Actually, he was correct -- if this had been a quotation, then it would have been proper to place the punctuation inside the quotes, but since it was a reference to the word itself, it was correct to place the punctuation outside of the quoted word.

The example I've seen utilized is:

When discussing 'use', use the word "use".

(Note that the sentence demonstrates the difference between the concept that the word expresses ('use'), a normal instance of the word in context (use) and a simple reference to the word itself ("use").)

Cheers!