"Loosing" vs. "Losing" - read & save my sanity!

Sad thing is that you can't even call it laziness when the person is typing extra letters.

Text shorthand drives me nuts BTW (lol) *quick smack to the forehead*

Arghhh.

You have got to wonder if you are still right if everybody else is wrong?

Sometimes I think we might as well just give up the english language all together and learn to speak spanish. I only say this because it is almost a crime where I live in Texas not to speak spanish. The schools discrimanate against kids that don't know it and jobs are reserved for those that can speak spanish. I personally think it should be the other way around.

Grammar: The difference between knowing your *kitten* and knowing you're *kitten*.

lmao!

I have to confess, the "loosing" vs "losing" does bug the living daylights out of me. I'm a professional technical writer and editor. It's really hard for me not to notice things like that in a post. There are a ton of other grammar issues that irritate me as well. But you know what? It's a message board. So I just suck it up and ignore it. It's not the time or place to correct that sort of thing. If I tried to do that here I'd have time for nothing else. Not to mention I'd get flamed back constantly! If something is written so poorly that I can't understand it, that's different. Then I just stop reading it and move on to something else.

Otherwise, my way of dealing with it is to simply not try at all to keep my own grammar in line. I hope I've succeed in failing in this post, too.

They're, there, their.

Your, you're.

Then, than.

General lack of punctuation.

Text speak.. Except for "lol" as it's a generic happy phrase.

Lack of capitals at the beginning of sentences, and lack of capitals for words like "I"

Lack of apostrophes.

Stationary, stationery.

Specific, Pacific.

Bad spelling overall.

I am a grammar nerd and spend most time correcting people.

I'm sure there are many, many more!

I totally agree! I work as an editor, and this stuff drives me nuts!

Sometimes... it's just a typo.

I know the difference between loosing and losing, they're, their, and there, alot and a lot, and all the other things people that make people grumpy, but my fingers work faster than my brain, sometimes, and their ends up on paper when I mean there and so forth.


PS. I was going to edit "people that make people grumpy" so that it said "that make people grumpy", but then I thought it was really funny to have a horrid mis-phrasing of words on a thread dedicated to grammar and correct word choice

Somewhere there is a baby elephant crying..



Because it's seen this type of thread 345,609,304 times.

Somewhere there is a baby elephant crying..



Because it's seen this type of thread 345,609,304 times.

Uh....yeah!!!! :indifferent:

I also don't get that if people have such a horrid time looking at grammar mistakes, why are they online anyways? People are not perfect like apparently you are. So why bother putting yourself in this situation of looking at the poor grammar. People have different strengths, some good at math, science and yes English. But should never be put down for using the wrong "there" on a online forum or chat area. It's pointless and makes me think people are still blind to seeing people as different and not all the same. Some may have not been able to go to the best schools and get educated for whatever reason due to upbringing and should not be punished for this. Stop judging and thinking you know "their" background on education. May not be their fault entirely.

Yep, correcting people's huge pet peeve of mine.

Anyways??? That would be anyway, the original term. Come to think of it, that's another one of my pet peeves.