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!!

[Ditter]

Since this a thread about perfect spelling, ‘backasswards’ is spelled ‘bassackwards’. Not that it matters, but what disturbs me the most is the fact that paulat is humor impaired.

[CAluvdubya]

So than, which one is hugher?
And which one is more series then hugh?

Bingo! It took 126 posts before someone got to then and than. it drives me crazy every time I see a sentence with, "other then that..."

[Old Professer]

Only within the nutcase lexicon; not established in normal speak.

[RightWhale]

Only within the nutcase lexicon; not established in normal speak.

Not really. Technical lingo, perhaps out of place on a common forum.

[MozarkDawg]

The egregious misuse of words in posts on every forum I visit has reached the *up to here* level with me as well. If I read "between you and I" one more time ...

I think I may have reached critical mass when I came across someone "poo pooing" a matter -- I was figuratively (not literally, another constant misuse) tearing my hair out while typing that one does his "poo pooing" in the *necessary*, when he wishes to demonstrate derision, he is "pooh poohing." He tried to cover embarrassment by pointing out as how I'd misspelled some word in my post which I not only had not misspelled, but he spelled misspell, "mispell." Go figure.

It constantly amazes me how many journalists/reporters make simple grammatical errors -- listen to how many times you will hear "reason is because" from them, even though they purportedly went to college. They didn't learn back the 5th grade that this is redundant?

[Texas Songwriter]

Don’t loose your temper so easily.

[TChris]

He tried to cover embarrassment by pointing out as how I'd misspelled some word in my post which I not only had not misspelled, but he spelled misspell, "mispell." Go figure.

Umm, that should have been a clue to the humor.

[MozarkDawg]

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 . . .

I'd love to be invited to that popular Independance my own self ... is it anything like a cotillion, do you know?

Spell-check is great, but not all that helpful when you've spelled a word correctly, simply used it improperly, a real drag for me when my poor eyesight didn't catch my boo boo before I had hit "post" -- I only then notice it when I'm back to the thread and can't modify, correct myself.

I'll never forget the article I was reading in a Science magazine while waiting to see a doctor, no kidding, it used "orgasm" instead of "organism."

[girlscout]

You loss me at hello.

[AUsome Joy]

My folk must have welcomed your folk. One family was in Maryland in 1720 and then moved to VA before 1723. (Maryland is south of Mason-Dixon line.) They ended up in Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama. Another was in VA in 1656. They also ended up in AL.

Here is a fun write up of “y’all”.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y’all

Y’all is also used in the phrase “all y’all”, which is a more inclusive form comparable to “all of you”. This can cause some amusement as “all y’all” can be interpreted as “all of you all”. Note that we can be used as the first-person analog of y’all for the first three properties listed above.

[donna]

My spell checker’s subsitute for “Obama” is . . . “Ovum”.

LOL.

[Crawdad]

‘Golf’ is not a verb.

[6ppc]

I gnu you would eventually loose you’re mind!

[Positive]

"It constantly amazes me how many journalists/reporters make simple grammatical errors -- listen to how many times you will hear "reason is because" from them, even though they purportedly went to college. They didn't learn back the 5th grade that this is redundant?"

How about when read or hear in one of the media..."500 people were evacuated..."?

Can you imagine the fire department giving 500 people enemas at one time?

[Oorang]

Thanks for the write up.

[BlueLancer]

Okay, I'll give you a pet peeve that's been eating at me since I joined the military back in 1972 ...

In the military, particularly for land navigation, you set the orientation of your map by aligning it so that north on the map matches the north on your compass.

In other words, in basic militarese ... you ORIENTATE the map ....

AAARRGGHHH! It's ORIENT, you dimwits ...

Thank you ... I feel better now.

[logician2u]

... you ORIENTATE the map ....

And I would imagine it's also common usage to say your AO administrates the platoon, or regiment, or whatever the Army unit is.

It's probably good that most Americans who join up do so at a young age, before they've had any real-world job experience which might lead to some confusion when they're first exposed to military jargon.

[BluesDuke]

I'd love to be invited to that popular Independance my own self ... is it anything like a cotillion, do you know?

It's the Two-Step, Side-step Bawl, didn't you know? ;)

[BluesDuke]

My pet peeve is everyday and every day.

My pet peeve is William Safire's---the pet peeve.

One of these days, ongana buy a dog and name him Peeve, so I can introduce him to my friends, in the thrill of indignation, "This is my pet, Peeve."---William Safire, On Language.

Two cheerful dogs grace our household, but in my imagination we also have a dog named Peeve. He is perpetually grumpy; complains about his dog food, collar is too tight, bed lumpy, not getting enough exercise, all that. What especially gets his hackles to rise is human language he doesn’t understand.---William Safire, "And Now This," The New York Times, 28 October 2008.

After lamenting the disuse of "the fine old airline verb" deplane, in favour of debark, Safire ended with this jewel: Have to go now; my pet, Peeve, is debarking.

[BluesDuke]

I think I may have reached critical mass when I came across someone "poo pooing" a matter . . .

Forgive him, Father. (Sorry. I saw "critical mass" and mistook you for a priest.) He must have had it up to there from the pupu platter.