My pet peeve on this board is: "lose" vs. "loose"

I'm fairly certain someone misuses one or the other here at least once a day!

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How about the term "mo fugga "?

Is that spelled correctly?
Asif
PS-Im sure that it is "spelled" and not "spelt" as it is more commonly pronounced

 

I two agree that too use lose when one means loose is to confusing!

 

Here's another;

What is the plural for Moose? Meese?
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While we're ranting here, people, please learn how to spell "ridiculous!!" It's NOT "rediculous." It kills me every time I see that in a thread.

 

I agree with C3 -- we have to have some rules and standards that don't change, regardless (not irregardless ) of how many people get them wrong. On that score, Webster's in particular is known to be no better than a 2-bit crack ho'. Anytime some ignoramus in an internet chatroom misspells a word, Webster's is on it like stink on poop calling it an official variant. My theory: they're just trying to sell more dictionaries by claiming each year's edition is "new, improved, and updated." Hogwash! They're doing more to corrupt the language than to document it.

 

Did anyone catch the article a while back about kids these days using chatroom slang/L33T speak in school reports? I think we're all dinosaurs about to be passed by.

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/19/technolo...its/19MESS.html

Mmm... Eve Becker...

 

Certainly not... you da' preacha' man

 

A story on NPR a couple of days ago had a gentleman who's been in high-tech industry for over twenty years referring to one thing as "just as equally important" as another, and saying that if he had known how little personal interaction there was in the industry he "would have chose a different career".

Perhaps one in which he would have learnt to speak English.

Dja' think?

 

It will all be clear if you just spend more time in the "Libary"... :-)