It's lose not loose!

Drives me insane too!!!

I agree!!!! Always a pet peeve of mine. It's "lose" people not "loose". Loose means clothing that hangs from U. So u want to lose to get loose clothing.

I remember two years ago ppl were complaining about the same in here.
There will ALWAYS be ppl That type loose instead of lose.
So relax, and just accept the fact That some ppl might learn, and some ppl wont care about spelling..

diannethegeek wrote: »

Typos. English as a second, third, or fourth language. Autocorrect from a mobile device or talk-to-text. Learning disorders or other disabilities. And such.

Yes !
Do you remember the thread where the older lady said " I need too loose weight " and people went all crazy about the errors and she replied by saying she was using Google translate because she only spoke Spanish and it must've screwed up the translation ? She went on to say the first thread she created got deleted because she wrote it in Spanish and the second one was flagged as spam because she wasn't making sense trying to write in English herself and the third got made fun of because of the translation errors. Well since then I try to remember that not everyone speaks English and sometimes it's hard for them to get their point across without errors.
Yes things like loose and lose will get on my nerves, I'm human. But I realize that sometimes that's the best people can do.

You'll get used to it. And like others said, not everyone speaks English. It does get on my nerves but everyone has their strengths and weaknesses. I can spell but I can't math for my life.

I think 75% of the people do it on purpose

Yeah, it's annoying, but you have to pick your battles. A lot of people, unfortunately, just don't care about proper spelling and grammar, so even if you do say something, it won't help.

It drives me nuts, but I just keep it to myself. I have the same problem when reading someone's profile and whatnot, and someone messes up than and then, you're and your, they're and there and their, no and know. Usually if I notice my own typo I try to correct it. I feel like texting and character limiting such as twitter make people sound mentally challenged now, especially on dating profiles. "I wud lyke 2 find tht special sum1. I hpe itz u. Cum msg me and gt to no (instead of saying know) me." LMFAO! What's the point of going to school anymore if people aren't going to use the basics? I try not to judge people who have a difficult time spelling, but if I can't understand you and we're constantly messaging each other then that's when it becomes a problem. I just give up and move on. I dropped out of school because of my learning disability, but somehow I was always excellent at vocabulary and spelling. People in my family who teach English ask me how to spell words. haha

queenliz99 wrote: »

I get confused with affect and effect, so yeah, English is tough for the English speaking too.

Affect is the verb and effect is the noun. It's how I always remember the difference.

Uggghh thank you for this post. It was driving me crazy!