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
whitebb2727

whitebb2727

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Singlemalt said:
Uh, actually spitting is the original, became a description way before photography. It evolved something like this:


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  • 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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Hmmm. I stand corrected. Thank you.
 
mr sunshine

mr sunshine

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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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I didn't even know that was a problem... people are so stupid now a days. .FUCKEN UNEDUCATED LOOSERS.
 
Gary Goodson

Gary Goodson

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Singlemalt said:
I didn't know Mexicans could lisp
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Oh then you should've heard my older brother when he was younger. That nigga wanted some "tea with yemon and misk it up"

I was the worst too, I would tell him "big ass baby huey! It's lemon and you mix it" lmao he still has that lisp to this day, just not as bad. And I still give him shit about it
 
tyler.durden

tyler.durden

Well-Known Member
Singlemalt said:
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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Fantastic, great post...
 
tyler.durden

tyler.durden

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Hookabelly said:
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




YESSSS! I'll just shoot myself now
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Brilliant, and delivered with an edge. I think I love you...
 
Singlemalt

Singlemalt

Well-Known Member
Check this out:


Epitaph of John the smyth, died 1371
Further information: Brightwell Baldwin
An epitaph from a monumental brass in an Oxfordshire parish church:[14]

Original text
man com & se how schal alle ded li: wen yolk comes bad & bare
moth have ben ve awaẏ fare: All ẏs wermēs yt ve for care:—
bot yt ve do for god ẏs luf ve haue nothyng yare:
yis graue lẏs John ye smẏth god yif his soule hewn grit Translation by Patricia Utechin[14]
Man, come and see how all dead men shall lie: when that comes bad and bare,
we have nothing when we away fare: all that we care for is worms:—
except for that which we do for God's sake, we have nothing ready:
under this grave lies John the smith, God give his soul heavenly peace

Translation by Patricia Utechin[14]
Man, come and see how all dead men shall lie: when that comes bad and bare,
we have nothing when we away fare: all that we care for is worms:—
except for that which we do for God's sake, we have nothing ready:
under this grave lies John the smith, God give his soul heavenly peace
 
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