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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emotional_soup_88@programming.dev 3 weeks agoAah shet. I’m not a native speaker. 😂
sbeak@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 3 weeks 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. 🤦
sbeak@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
English really is a funny language
homes@piefed.world 3 weeks 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.
thenextguy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
To be fair, they both have the same root origin. Even native speakers get it wrong often.