The difference between lose and loose.

[Sir Isaac Lime]

Loose = Not tight
Lose = Not win

Thank you for your time.

[Lee]

I like to use the terms loosely

[garak]

I'm with you man, I really am, but unfortunately, ranting about grammar and whatnot tends to just cause bickering and the people never change.

But I guess you did posts this in rants and raves, so maybe I should've just stuck with the words of encouragement. : P

[Shai Gar]

at least it gets it out of his system

[Dman]

Loose = Not tight
Lose = Not win

Thank you for your time.

Get off your high horse and quit your bitchin'

Looser!

jk!

[mgb]

I actually enjoy the fact that grammar issues get posted here instead of on the thread they came from. It lets someone vent without hijacking a thread.

[C.J.Woolf]

Get off your high horse and quit your bitchin'
Do you mean "high hoorse"? ;)

[Chicken]

I'd hate to see you loose your mother or father.

Really, incest is sick..

[Bluehaze]

Loose = Not tight
Lose = Not win

Thank you for your time.I honestly cannot tell if this is supposed to be sexual innuendo, or just a list of two definitions...

[kooliganka]

Thank you! This is a huge pet peeve of mine. Is it just me or are people writing 'loose' instead of 'lose' more often these days? Foreigners can be forgiven, but for native speakers there is no excuse for not knowing that there's just one 'o'. :rant:

[Claverhouse]

Although I have been myself wrongly accused of correcting another's grammar/spelling ( it was a joke... :ph34r: ), life, particularly since I smoke, is too short to care. Still, how about another suggested sub-forum: 'Grammar Matters' where the nazis can exact their revenges ?


Claverhouse :ph34r:

[Vagabond]

particularly since I smoke ...at your age..? Oh dear.

:ph34r:

[tragula]

For the record. I don't care about spelling too much. But I spell check everything before posting as a courtesy, unless I'm really tired or in a hurry.

But I will say, that often when people make mistakes like these it's because they don't think of the words visually but auditorially. Is that a word? Don't crucify me if it isn't ;-)

For example. I often write "are" instead of "our" just because I'm speed thinking through something. When of course I know the difference perfectly well, and will catch and correct on a read through...

So the moral of the story is that not spelling correctly doesn't neccesarily make you a looser.

[MacGuffin]

If you don't educate the ignorant, they remain ignorant.

[ApeTheDog]

I think anyone who doesn't educate themselves is pretty much a loost case to begin with.

[MacGuffin]

I think anyone who doesn't educate themselves is pretty much a loost case to begin with.
Okay, that made me laugh.