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DirtyDishSoap
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Loose and Lose?

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When the hell did people start confusing these two words?
Dukasaur wrote:
saxitoxin wrote:taking medical advice from this creature; a morbidly obese man who is 100% convinced he willed himself into becoming a woman.
Your obsession with mrswdk is really sad.
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I'd like to know the answer to this as well. It seems an odd thing to get confused by.
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People are confused by that? Damn, we're stupid.
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Its getting more and more frequent...I think mankind is devolving or something
Dukasaur wrote:
saxitoxin wrote:taking medical advice from this creature; a morbidly obese man who is 100% convinced he willed himself into becoming a woman.
Your obsession with mrswdk is really sad.
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Ah i don't know... we all have our little crosses to bare!

I almost always begin to spell 'lose' with a double 'o'; instinctively it seems correct. (i correct it of course)

the 'oooo' sound is present in both words to the same degree, paradoxically it is slightly less pronounced in 'loose'.
Phonetically it makes no sense for 'lose' to have a single 'o'. it is simply historical! God bless the English!
why does the extra 'o' change the final sound to 'sssss' instead of 'zzzzzz'? just because it should!

I love etymology but it is logical for people to make this mistake.
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jiminski wrote:Ah i don't know... we all have our little crosses to bare!
I hope you're being ironic there.
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I doon't knoow. That darn oo gets stuck all the time.
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jiminski wrote:Ah i don't know... we all have our little crosses to bare!
When does the "Bare and Bear?" topic get started, lol
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Im pretty sure when we got past 3rd grade we could tell the difference between loose and lose, in saying as well.
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saxitoxin wrote:taking medical advice from this creature; a morbidly obese man who is 100% convinced he willed himself into becoming a woman.
Your obsession with mrswdk is really sad.
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Your an idiot.
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Optimus Prime wrote:I'd like to know the answer to this as well. It seems an odd thing to get confused by.

And totally annoys the heck out of me.
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DirtyDishSoap wrote:When the hell did people start confusing these two words?
I don't think people are confused at what the words mean, they just are horrible spellers
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Genghis Khant wrote:
jiminski wrote:Ah i don't know... we all have our little crosses to bare!
I hope you're being ironic there.
unriggable wrote:Your an idiot.
I hope you're bring ironic.
Since this has been brought up.
Bare(v)=expose.
Bear=carry or endure.
Your=belonging to you.
You're=You are.
Their=belonging to them.
They're=they are.
There=not here, some other place.

Let me get down off this soapbox before I twist my ankle.
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I yuosed to bee gude at speilling untill the internet scroowed me all up
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:lol:
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daddy1gringo wrote:
Genghis Khant wrote:
jiminski wrote:Ah i don't know... we all have our little crosses to bare!
I hope you're being ironic there.
unriggable wrote:Your an idiot.
I hope you're bring ironic.
Since this has been brought up.
Bare(v)=expose.
Bear=carry or endure.
Your=belonging to you.
You're=You are.
Their=belonging to them.
They're=they are.
There=not here, some other place.

Let me get down off this soapbox before I twist my ankle.
I didnt mind the other ones cause it kind of grows on you to do it as well

But loose and lose? Come on now, when did the shit hit the fan
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saxitoxin wrote:taking medical advice from this creature; a morbidly obese man who is 100% convinced he willed himself into becoming a woman.
Your obsession with mrswdk is really sad.
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daddy1gringo wrote:
Genghis Khant wrote:
jiminski wrote:Ah i don't know... we all have our little crosses to bare!
I hope you're being ironic there.
unriggable wrote:Your an idiot.
I hope you're bring ironic.
Since this has been brought up.
Bare(v)=expose.
Bear=carry or endure.
Your=belonging to you.
You're=You are.
Their=belonging to them.
They're=they are.
There=not here, some other place.

Let me get down off this soapbox before I twist my ankle.
Well you need to get back on your soap box and explain the loose and lose definitions. That is what the topic was about and you didn't explain it to us.
(Not that I need you to explain it to me.) :lol:
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OK,

Lose = opposite of "win" or of "find". The "s" pronounced like a "z".

Loose = opposite of "tight". The "s" is pronounced like a hiss.

btw,
Two = 2: the whole number between one and three.
Too = 1. "Excesively", as in "too many" 2. "Also" as on "me too"
To = 1. preposition indicating destination, as in "Go to the store" or "give it to him" 2. The first part of an infinitive, as in "I am going to do that" or "I like to play."

I'm getting exasperated at people using "to" for "too"

Courtesy of your friendly neighborhood semantics and grammar demagogue.
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FYI daddy gringo I was being ironic. I was hoping somebody would catch that so I didn't look awkward
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Post by hiitsmestevie1 »

maybe whoever your referring to was trying to type it with expression (like "ohhhh noooooooooooo ...im gonna loooooooooooooooooose" except not to that extent) or it can be a typo.(we all know i have enough of those;)
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Post by sully800 »

The problem is that the english language has no consistent rules.

Lose, loose
Chose, Choose

Lose rhymes with choose, despite the spellings. Loose rhymes with moose, and chose rhymes with hose, but loose/choose and lose/chose do not rhyme.

It has never been a problem for me, and the people who screw it up are very annoying....but I still blame it on English primarily.
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hiitsmestevie1 wrote: ...whoever your referring to...
Gaaaa! ](*,) ...whoever you're referring to... ](*,) ](*,) ](*,)
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Post by CrazyAnglican »

sully800 wrote:The problem is that the english language has no consistent rules.

I blame the French. English was such a nice little Germanic language until William the Conqueror came in with his French speaking Viking wanabees and well the rest is history. The whole things history actually. I'll shut up now. :oops:
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