Loose vs Lose

What lexical or grammatical errors bother you?

  • Oh, I've got a couple

    Votes: 10 23.8%

  • None, becasue I'm not an uptight asshole!

    Votes: 7 16.7%

  • Fuck you, Tyler! Go shove a book up your ass...

    Votes: 10 23.8%

  • A little bit of the ol' shit and stomp for me

    Votes: 3 7.1%

  • Oh yeah? Then why are you a 'looser'?

    Votes: 4 9.5%

  • Thanks for playing a part in saving our beloved language. You rock!

    Votes: 12 28.6%

  • Pinworm

    Votes: 17 40.5%
  • Total voters
    42
tyler.durden

tyler.durden

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Far be it for me to be pedantic, but I can't take this one any longer. This error is ubiquitous! Online reviews, blogs, every forum... Enough.

Loose = opposite of tight
Lose = opposite of win

They are not interchangeable. How about you? Which lexical or grammatical errors bother you?
 
dannyboy602

dannyboy602

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^^^that vid was the shit.
I don't get bent outta shape over your and you're or lose and loose. Not even you're and your bc I don't like looking for the apostrophe key either.
What really gets stuck in my craw is when someone says "ax" instead of ask.
That's just plain laziness because whoever says it knows they're doing it on purpose.
End rant.
 
Hookabelly

Hookabelly

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tyler.durden said:
Far be it for me to be pedantic, but I can't take this one any longer. This error is ubiquitous! Online reviews, blogs, every forum... Enough.

Loose = opposite of tight
Lose = opposite of win

They are not interchangeable. How about you? Which lexical or grammatical errors bother you?
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SHEEEIT! This is SUCH a peeve of mine both in the written and spoken word. But far be it from me to bitch about it on TNT. but seriously people it's just verbal/written laziness and I know there are some great minds here so take it up a notch and do it right.

My peeves

#1 EXpresso: there is no "x" in the coffee drink. that drives me up a wall
#2 I "seen" it. Did we miss the third grade when Have and Had were introduced? or-

"She don't even know she has a muffin top." it's DOESN'T

#3 There's so many grammatical retards: Did we forget what plural/singular means? This is more nit picky as I notice it's becoming a popular denigration in the laziness of American speech. Even my kid's teachers do it. There ARE so many grammatical retards…

'nuff said. But I still love all you mofo's



Trousers said:
Irregardless, for all intensive purposes
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YESSSS! I'll just shoot myself now
 
Singlemalt

Singlemalt

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whitebb2727 said:
I know this isn't quit what you asked for.

It bothers me when people say spitting image not splitting image.
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Uh, actually spitting is the original, became a description way before photography. It evolved something like this:


"
  • metaphor: “it’s like he was spat out of his father’s mouth” (1689).

  • metonymy: “he’s the very spit of his father” (1825) — when the metaphor is commonplace enough, it no longer gets spelled out in full.

  • idiom/cliché: “the spit and image of his father” (1859) — a particularly effective wording of the metonymy solidifies into a widely re-used phrase.

  • corruption: “the spitten image” (1878) — the original analysis of the phrase is lost.

  • reanalysis: “the spitting image” (1901) — this strange new word “spitten” gets replaced by something which is at least syntactically more comprehensible.

  • further reanalysis/eggcorning: “the splitting image” (1880(!?), 1939) — the phrase changes to something which is more semantically plausible — it’s easier to imagine ways that “splitting image” could have arisen than “spitting image”.
http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/8509/is-it-correct-to-say-person-a-is-the-spitting-image-or-the-splitting-image-o
 
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