No one spells "lose" anymore

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• toxicbubble@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  i miss when the internet was full of grammar nazis instead of actual nazis

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  • StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I miss when the Internet was full of grammar Nazis instead of actual Nazis.

    FTFY. I hope that helps.

    /s

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  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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    People who proclaim others are Grammar Nazis generally may need to focus more on spelling and less on cheesy melodrama.

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  • glimse@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Capitalize the first word in your sentences and use proper punctuation, citizen.

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  • FluidBeef@quokk.au ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    gramnar nazi’s

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• becausechemistry@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Breaking news: people on TikTok are illiterate; water is wet; sky is blue

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  • Soggy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    It’s not just tiktok, I see people here (and everywhere) misuse “anymore” all the time these days. It needs to follow a negative!

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    • VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Similarly, everyday is an adjective. Every day is when something happens daily.

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  • CaptPretentious@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    🤓 ackchyually…

    Water is not wet. Water makes things wet.

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    • psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Water makes water wet. Checkmate, atheist.

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    • Zombiepirate@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Only if it’s a single atom of water, which would make it water vapor, not water.

      If water makes things wet, then it makes the other water wet too.

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  • socsa@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Woah buddy, I’ma need you to pump the breaks

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• Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  You loost me on this one.

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  • YaDownWitCPP@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    *lawst

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    • decolo@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      LAOUGHWPFST

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• Secret_Music@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I’ve been following this English teacher on Instagram, who has had every attempt at getting kids to read thwarted by the school admins, who don’t want anything ‘woke’ or ‘political’ or too challenging in any way. Which left this teacher with an empty library by the time the admin was done.

  So it’s not the kids’ fault, it’s not social media’s fault, it’s not even the teacher’s fault. It’s pearl clutching, conservative, anti ‘woke’, horse dewormer enjoying, piss drinkers that want these kids to stay stupid and unquestioning, and to have the reading ability of 5th graders.

  I guess that if you put a bunch of religious fruitcakes that think science and education are woke devil magic in charge of things, you’re going to end up with half educated children. Who would’ve thought?

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  • vector42@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Come on, it’s a little social media’s fault, too. They also benefit from these kids staying stupid and unquestioning. I agree with everything else you said, though.

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• Chiahna@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I was actually corrected on this not too long ago, and I am happy to report that I now remember the correct spelling!

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  • YaDownWitCPP@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    You ready to take on accept vs. except now?

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    • hades@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      How about affect and effect?

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    • ToffeeIsForClosers@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Or “the reason is that” instead of “the reason is because”?

      I have David Foster Wallace to thank for this little gift of constantly hearing a very common grammatical error of little consequence.

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• stopforgettingit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I am definitely one of those who makes typos and gets mad about this but - the internet needs to get more pedantic about spelling and grammar mistakes again.

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  • CalypsoGirl@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Wouldn’t it be great if the internet automatically rejects any post that contains a lie or grammar/spelling error? The internet would get cleaned up SO DAMN QUICKLY! 😄

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    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      You laugh. I dream of this.

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• nialv7@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Fun fact, the current pronunciation of “lose” likely comes from people in the past confusing it with “loose”! Quoting the OED:

  The regular modern English pronunciation representing Old English losian would be /ləʊz/; the standard English pronunciation /luːz/ seems to be due to association with LOOSE v., which in some contexts (e.g. to loose hold) closely approaches this verb in meaning.

  Otherwise it would probably be pronounced as /ləʊz/ (similar to nose, pose, close, etc.).

  So people in the past doing the conflation - totally fine, accepted, and normal. Because you learned it from the start. But people now doing the same kind of conflation - unacceptable, illiterate, stupid. Because that’s new and different.

  People are afraid of change, who knew…

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  • jh29a@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Lowe’s

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  • glimse@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    But people now doing the same kind of conflation - unacceptable, illiterate, stupid. Because that’s new and different.

    Sure, BUT have you ever considered that [your generation] is the bestest generation and every generation that came after is weird, dumb, and bad?

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• TabbsTheBat@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I spell lose as lose :3

  When I was learning english I used to confuse the spelling though, cause the word lose to me sounds like the same sound as the double o in other words :3. Though once I got used to the weird english spelling rules I fixed that problem. Now if only I could remember which way round desert and dessert are…

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  • orclev@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Now if only I could remember which way round desert and dessert are…

    Handy memory trick on that one, the one you want more of has more S’s in it.

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  • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Native English speaker here, lose/loose are tough ones.

    Looking at both words I could see how either one could be pronounced either way.

    Thanks French (I suspect)!

    It’s useful to keep in mind that written words are merely an attempt to record sounds, and when these spellings occurred these words were very likely pronounced much differently than today.

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    • TabbsTheBat@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Neither word is of french origin, im pretty sure :3

      Anywho, yeah I know a large part of why english spelling is the way that it is is because of things like the great vowel shift, which came after the spelling standardizations, as well as the mix of germanic, latin, and french (norman) influences all coming with their own spelling rules (as well as one off words borrowing spellings from other languages like spanish), but as someone coming from a language with pretty consistent spelling where loan words are adapted phonetically, the whole mess of having to know the origin of the word to even begin to vaguely grasp at the spelling was an adjustment lol.

      I mean, the weirdest spelling related quirk in my native language is that we have letters referred to as “nasal letters” which are not in any way pronounced nasally hah :3 compared to english, it’s a walk in the park

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  • MightBeAlpharius@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Everyone’s throwing out weird mnemonic with alliterative desserts… But it’s just “stressed” backwards.

    If you’re stressed, you should have some desserts to calm down!

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  • spizzat2@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Now if only I could remember which way round desert and dessert are…

    My favorite deSSert is Strawberry Shortcake.

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  • LostCarcosan@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    You eat a dessert and it makes you fatter, just like how it’s fatter than desert

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• KaChilde@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  My version of this is “casted”.

  The past tense of cast is cast.

  Inde Navarrette was not ‘casted’ as Rogue in the X-Men, but she was cast in the role. I’m sick of hearing illiterate idiots use that word every time some sort of movie news comes out.

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• FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I loosed it by losing 150 pounds. It’s a biological bummer that one can literally deflate themselves.

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  • Skanky@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I bet your waste size dropped at least 5 sizes!

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    • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I dropped from a 52 to a 38. I’ve since gained 60 of those pounds back, but a lot of it’s muscle.

      I kept the fat guy jeans to remind myself of where I started. Body dysmorphia’s a huge issue.

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• hedge_lord@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Yeah I see this everyday now, really seems like noone spell’s things wright anymore!

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  • imvii@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    There just dum.

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    • hedge_lord@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      It equals zero cents!

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• JiveTurkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Same people that think you can target fat.

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  • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    You can.

    But with diet.

    As my bodybuilder friends would say - abs are made in the kitchen (for them anyway, rest of us fatties just get less fat in the kitchen).

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• tquid@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Two others I mourn the death of, as in, it’s more often done wrongly than not, at least on the Internet:

  “Led” as the past tense of “lead”: I basically never see it any more. People just use “lead” for the past tense; and

  Singular “die.” People just use “dice” for both plural and singular. Though I occasionally see plural “die.” I hate this.

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  • baronvonj@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    die vs dice was dead IRL among non-TTRPG crowds long before the Internet was adopted by the masses.

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    • derfunkatron@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It might be possible that dice took over in usage because most people are never introduced to the concept of dice being singular. Very few mainstream dice based games from my childhood used less than two dice: Monopoly, Yahtzee, Farkle, Risk, Parcheesi, Backgammon. Trouble is the only one I remember that used a single die and that game didn’t even let you roll it.

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  • possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    the dumb led by the dumb

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• glimse@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Does no one think it’s weird how OP is copying and pasting other people’s complaints here?

  We’re not talking to the person who is annoyed. OP isn’t venting. They’re just bringing threads of negativity to the fediverse here and turning this place into reddit 2.

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  • melsaskca@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You are commenting on administration and procedure. What do you think of the common spelling error? It’s hardly negative unless you see the world darkly.

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    • glimse@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Ragebait makes the internet a worse place and that’s all this is. Just riling people up about a non-issue because the original post got a lot of upvotes. OP is a spambot.

      It’s also very hypocritical to me how a community that’s so anti-AI (for the record, I agree) has no problem with other types of stolen content. Reposting someone’s work without credit is fine as long as it doesn’t touch a model, I guess.

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• ChicoSuave@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It would help if lose didn’t have the double O “oo” sound so when people who rely on phonetics sound it out they avoid stumbling into the loose trap.

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• Hubi@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I am totally okay with this tbh, it’s one of the words that I struggled with when I learned English in school. It makes no sense that lose and loose sound the same.

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  • lividweasel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Not sure if you’re joking or completely unaware that they don’t actually sound the same…

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    • Hubi@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I’d wager they sound the same to most non-native speakers in a casual conversation.

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  • rowrowrowyourboat@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    They don’t. One is lose (loo-zz), the other is loose (loo-ss).

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  • brownsugga@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Haha yeah totally /s

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• KarlHungus42@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This spelling has been around for a while now and it seems like it is here to stay. I hate it so much.

  When the arm fat gets loose, where does it go?

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  • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Once it’s looseded, nobody knows where it goes.

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  • modus@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    For most ladies, it sheds off during bouts of bingo at the community center.

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• wopalopa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  languages are fluid and can evolve

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  • QuietGenesis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Yes but that’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard. They’re two different words used to explain different concepts. Just spell them and articulate yourself correctly.

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    • nialv7@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      words merging is a thing that happened countless times in English’s history. why make a fuss about this one?

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  • psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Or in this case, devolve.

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• Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They do it for engagement, half the comments will be dimwits correcting their spelling.

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• nightlily@leminal.space ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s never going to happen as modern English is six small children in a trench coat but it’d be lovely if there was a spelling reform like German went through. While there are one or two quirks (long/short unspelled vowels, no one pronounces -ig properly, Berliners insist on being weirdos), you can generally know exactly how a written word is pronounced in (standard) German.

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• usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  A similar one I see quite often is “and” when it should be “an”. Not sure if it’s an auto-complete thing or they genuinely don’t know the difference, maybe due to their accent/dialect. Either way it’s like getting tripped while walking when stumbling over it in a sentence.

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• 58008@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I’m not a grammar nazi, but I like to be helpful to people who want help:

  • Lose: Pronounced “loose”, as in “if you’re gonna challenge me to explain the difference between ‘lose’ and ‘loose’ well, ha, let’s just say you’re gonna lose/loose”

  • Loose: Pronounced “lose”, as in “just how lose/loose do you think AOC’s anal sphincter really is?”

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• DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  “Noone” is another one I’ve been seeing recently. Should be “no one”.

  Less common but more confusing is using “are” for “our”.

  More young people should be mad about the shitty education they got, instead of taking correction as a personal attack.

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• ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Beast Titan build.

  Image

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• tias@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I lost it by trying to press play too many times on screenshots of videos

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• Gladaed@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Spelling reform (the natural way) is spooky

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• hakase@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  So much badlinguistics in this thread I don’t even know where to start.

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