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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You ready to take on accept vs. except now?
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.
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..
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.
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!
Now if only I could remember which way round desert and dessert are..
My favorite deSSert is Strawberry Shortcake.
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.
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
Yes English is a complete train wreck of a language for multiple reasons, not just in terms of spelling and grammar, but every single aspect of the language. I do appreciate that it's mostly non-gendered, but that's just about the only win it has. English should have done what a few other languages did back around the 1800s and completely revamped how every single word is spelled to make it all uniform (and achieve a truly phonetic alphabet), but it's kind of too late for that now.
As a non-binary person I do appreciate the ability to have non-gendered words in english :3 my native language has everything as male or female which is... Ugh
Also funny thing about the spelling reform - we had one here in like.. the 19th century, though it was not because our spelling had gotten vastly inconsistent or anything, the main thing that was changed was that a lot of sounds written with polish inspired digraphs (sz, cz etc.) were replaced by czech inspired š, č, ž etc.. and also the letter ł which was also a polish influence was removed.. which is fair, we didn't really have a use for it. We also still have the digraph ch :3
Either way, we used to often have things like old 18th or 17th century papers in our textbooks to read, and they were still perfectly readable with the old spelling if you knew those few changes, so it wasn't a major change, though I do think it was a good one
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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.
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! 😄
You laugh. I dream of this.
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.
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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Same people that think you can target fat.
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).
This is a pet peeve of mine, I see “loose” used incorrectly all the time.
Beast Titan build.
I lost it by trying to press play too many times on screenshots of videos
Spelling reform (the natural way) is spooky
So much badlinguistics in this thread I don't even know where to start.