IT'S "LOSE" NOT "LOOSE" (I am SO tired of illiteracy...yes, I know, hugh, etc.) VANITY

Me ^ | 7/28/07 | Me

[paulat]

I am SO FREAKING TIRED of people who don't know the difference between "lose" and "loose."

Y'all are ILLITERATES!!

[henrygreen]

I laughed out loud at this one.

Thanks.

[Sundog]

That’s Maroon, Ya maroon!

[henrygreen]

How about anxious and eager? (Errrrg)

It’s “different than” that makes my brain cringe.

[radiohead]

Ivar, is that you?

[Allegra]

My pet peeve is apostrophes on plurals. That one just grates on me.

[Allegra]

And dont put spelling and grammer on a pedal stool. It aint that big a deal long as poeple know what you mean.

Can you be more pacific? I mean, irregardless of how other's feel, their must be some way to get around this.

[MaxMax]

This thread is Hugh!

[BluesDuke]

Personally, I didn't know the First Amendment said, "Congress shall pass no law . . . abridging freedom of speach," until I began reading here and on other message boards . . .

[InvisibleChurch]

You created a monster.

[alarm rider]

“Y’all are ILLITERATES!!”

I are not! I resemble that remark.

[Hazwaste]

People with a screen name containing the word waste should all be band.

Trust me, it would be a lousy band.

[Rammer]

LOL NICE!

[paulat]

My pet peeve is apostrophes on plurals. That one just grates on me.

OOOOOOOOH! That's a good one!

[logician2u]

Apostrophes have to be the most misused (or is that abused?) punctuation mark in the English language.

Worse than sticking them before a final "s" to make plurals is attaching apostrophes into present-tense singular verbs, presumably to make them more understandable to the (presumed equally illiterate) reader.

Examples abound on the Web, and on this very forum.

Also, much more common -- so common that it must be taught as correct in public schools these days -- is the misuse of the apostrophe in trying to make a pronoun possessive.

Don't people realize that the pronouns "hers" and "its" are already possessive case and require nothing more? We see "her's" from time to time and tend to disregard it as a typo or careless spelling.

But the apostrophe in "it's" has legitimate use to designate a contraction: it is. When someone writes, referring to the MSM for instance, "it's leftist slant that I can't stand," the literate reader thinks the sentence is over . . and then we get hit with another clause like, "is what's killing the network news." A complete sentence? You decide. Overly complete, IMHO, since there's two verbs.

Good writing does not leave the reader wondering what the writer was trying to get across.

[Allegra]

Good writing does not leave the reader wondering what the writer was trying to get across.

Exactly. My mother used to say, "People won't necessarily notice when you're speaking or writing correctly; they'll notice when you don't."

I can't tell you how many times I've had to resist the urge to make pedantic comments to some posts.

Kudos to paulat for getting her pet peeve off of her chest and giving us the opportunity to vent our own.

[Old Professer]

Lead when led is called for calls for a different kind of lead, bang - you’re dead.

[Old Professer]

to, too, two true

[Old Professer]

I believe Al Capp is the famous neologist responsible for that; some sort of running dispute with his nitpicking editor, I believe.

Lil Abner would never have said something so mainstream as regardless and Capp knew it.

[Old Professer]

They probably work for a cell phone company.

[Old Professer]

Go soak your Auburn heads...