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IT'S "LOSE" NOT "LOOSE" (I am SO tired of illiteracy...yes, I know, hugh, etc.) VANITY
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| 7/28/07
| Me
Posted on 07/28/2008 5:38:09 PM PDT by paulat
I am SO FREAKING TIRED of people who don't know the difference between "lose" and "loose."
Y'all are ILLITERATES!!
TOPICS: Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: dictionary; lucingit; madashell; sadbuttrue; screwloose; screwlose
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To: Lizavetta
My pet peeve is everyday and every day. That, and those who insist on using the non-word "alot".
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posted on
07/29/2008 9:36:55 AM PDT
by
TChris
(Vote John McCain: Democrat Lite -- 3% less liberal than a regular Democrat!)
To: paulat
You’re about 10 years late.
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posted on
07/29/2008 9:38:30 AM PDT
by
Deb
(Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
To: paulat
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 An outdated term rooted in 19th century junk science, that is not used in any other country.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.
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posted on
07/29/2008 9:39:16 AM PDT
by
Clemenza
(No Comment)
To: Rushmore Rocks
Shoot, I already had the hammer cocked.
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posted on
07/29/2008 9:39:29 AM PDT
by
Old Professer
(The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
To: Atlantian
To effect meaningful change, one must affect the lives of many people.
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posted on
07/29/2008 9:40:34 AM PDT
by
Old Professer
(The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
To: Pearls Before Swine
Emotional affect?, never saw such a usage before.
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posted on
07/29/2008 9:43:19 AM PDT
by
Old Professer
(The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
To: dighton
There are many neologistic messes within the nutspeak community.
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posted on
07/29/2008 9:46:46 AM PDT
by
Old Professer
(The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
To: rawhide
You think the hall belongs to you today or you just have nothing else better to do? :)
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posted on
07/29/2008 9:56:56 AM PDT
by
Old Professer
(The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
To: clintonh8r
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posted on
07/29/2008 9:58:57 AM PDT
by
Old Professer
(The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
To: Old Professer
Emotional affect?, never saw such a usage before. Its used in psychological literature. Try Googling "emotional affect." Tons of references pop out.
To: Bobkk47
and if you lose them it could well be because they were to loose....
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posted on
07/29/2008 10:03:22 AM PDT
by
God luvs America
(When the silent majority speaks the earth trembles!)
To: logician2u
Which is exactly why spelling matters.
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posted on
07/29/2008 10:05:58 AM PDT
by
Old Professer
(The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
To: paulat
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.
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posted on
07/29/2008 10:11:21 AM PDT
by
lonevoice
(John McCain was a Kinoki foot pad in the Reagan Revolution)
To: paulat
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.
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posted on
07/29/2008 10:12:06 AM PDT
by
aruanan
To: EggsAckley; Oorang
learned from my Alabama relatives that the simple y'all means one person. To address a bunch of people, it probably should be y'alls.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.
To: ReignOfError
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.)
~
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posted on
07/29/2008 10:32:44 AM PDT
by
EggsAckley
( "the difference between Obama and Osama is just a little b.s.")
To: Old Professer
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.
To: EggsAckley
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.
To: paulat
This thread should be a fairly compleat source of FRisms.
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posted on
07/29/2008 10:37:48 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(I will veto each and every beer)
To: ReignOfError
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.
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posted on
07/29/2008 10:40:10 AM PDT
by
EggsAckley
( "the difference between Obama and Osama is just a little b.s.")
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