Comment on Who's receiving and who's loosing electrons?

• thenextguy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  To be fair, they both have the same root origin. Even native speakers get it wrong often.

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• sbeak@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The short answer is, to “lose” means to have lost something (e.g. “Did you lose your keys?”, but in this case it’s electrons) while to “loose” is used to describe getting something to be able to move freely / unstuck (which could arguably be used to describe the loss of electrons in a material, since you’re rubbing them loose)

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  • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    And the messed up thing is they both are pronounced opposite to the spelling.

    You’d thing “loose” would have the longer O sound, but “lose” does. 🤦

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    • sbeak@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      English really is a funny language

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• homes@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It’s particularly amusing because this is a very rare example of when either spelling could be correct in this context without changing the meaning at all.

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