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

Me ^ | 7/28/07 | Me

[TChris]

My pet peeve is everyday and every day.

That, and those who insist on using the non-word "alot".

[Deb]

You’re about 10 years late.

[Clemenza]

Two words I see too much on this site:

1. "Noone" for None.

2. "Caucasian." An outdated term rooted in 19th century junk science, that is not used in any other country. The only true caucasians live in places like Tblisi or Yerevan. "White" or "European American" should be sufficient.

[Old Professer]

Shoot, I already had the hammer cocked.

[Old Professer]

To effect meaningful change, one must affect the lives of many people.

[Old Professer]

Emotional affect?, never saw such a usage before.

[Old Professer]

There are many neologistic messes within the nutspeak community.

[Old Professer]

You think the hall belongs to you today or you just have nothing else better to do? :)

[Old Professer]

So desparaging...

[Pearls Before Swine]

Emotional affect?, never saw such a usage before.

Its used in psychological literature. Try Googling "emotional affect." Tons of references pop out.

[God luvs America]

and if you lose them it could well be because they were to loose....

[Old Professer]

Which is exactly why spelling matters.

[lonevoice]

Thank you for this instructive thread. My grammar and punctuation aren’t always the greatest, especially my punctuation. Sometimes my sentence construction looks like there was a fire sale on commas. :-) But, I confess, the “loser” versus “looser” phenomena annoys me when I see it misused.

Here’s another that bugs me: “utmost” versus “upmost”. I see it often on FR and elsewhere (much like “mute” versus “moot”). It bugs.

[aruanan]

Hey, on our DNA sequence trimming program we'll get this message if we don't apply the trimming changes before quitting, "Stop. If you quit now you will loose all your changes."

This is also my opportunity to promote Richard Mitchell's Less than Words Can Say and The Graves of Academe, available in their entirety at Sourcetext.com.

[ReignOfError]

learned from my Alabama relatives that the simple “y'all” means one person. To address a bunch of people, it probably should be “y'all’s.”

Sorry, but your Alabama relatives are wrong. Y'all is a plural. Anyone who uses it as a singular is usually a sheltered New York or Hollywood writer trying lamely to imitate the Southern vernacular.

Y'all provides the English language with a second person pronoun, like "vous" in French, something formal English lacks. It's an extremely useful word, and I use it freely in all but the most formal settings.

Y'all's is a possessive.

[EggsAckley]

Well, since my Grandma and Mom are both dead, I guess there's no way to 'splain it to 'em.

Heheheh. (not loosing losing ANY sleep over it.)

~

[ReignOfError]

Emotional affect?, never saw such a usage before.

Emotional affect (sometimes just "affect," pronounced AF-fekt) is one's overall demeanor. An inappropriate affect -- an unusual emotional response to stress-- can be an indicator of mental illness or criminal guilt. A flat affect, absent stress or empathy in situations where they would be expected, can be an indicator of a psychopath.

[ReignOfError]

Sorry. On reflection, I came off as far more pedantic than I meant to. Y’all is kind of a pet cause of mine, because I think it’s such an amazingly useful word.

[RightWhale]

This thread should be a fairly compleat source of FRisms.

[EggsAckley]

No problem. The really funny thing is that in all of my 62 years I have NEVER uttered the phrase “y’all” and my Mom never did either. Apparently she left her Alabama stuff behind when she moved west.

One of my favorite “grandma-isms” was when she would announce that she was “T I R D tired.” I loved that one.