[Closed] People using 'loose' when they mean 'lose' . Please stop, please

Don't loose any sleep over it.

You need to losen up.

EDIT: Conrats 😉

(..and capitalise "Dad")

Your worrying to much. Their is more important things to worry about.

It's the loosers that come along to correct it in post number 2 that want to be having a word with themselves.

Can you be more pacific?

The gents' loos are just along the corridor.

You gays

Rebecca Loos

*guys

Shirley you can't be serious about that bothering you

I am, and don't call me Shirley

Is it too early to divert this into an affect/effect thread?

@OP
like off of bruneeps' post ? Broils my piss. Literally.

I genuinely don't know how to use affect/effect correctly...

Teach me

It's not to early for me as I'm already effected by it

@scaredypants - yes 😀

@ Wiggles. The sound effect didn't affect me.

Does that help?

I'm not a teecher.

Here here.

affect is a verb*

effect is a noun

(*unless your a psychiatrist)

like off of bruneeps' post ? Broils my piss. Literally.

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Been a long day.............

I thought effect could be used as a verb too?

EDIT: YES, YES IT CAN! Burn him!!

🙂

I thought effect could be used as a verb too?

OP

just post up a handy link
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I like to use the verbal form to effect a state of confusion for those who struggle to tell the difference between effect and affect. Yes, it's an affectation.

Hear here.

This is why I have never successfuly managed learn how to use them correctly.

DD - I think it's possibly the first "podium/medal/otherbollocks" verbing offence

to 'bear arms' or 'bare arms'
always confuses me

*whispers* I quite like some verbings of recent years. Especially the ones with a high litres of piss boiled per pedantry thread ratio.

OK

my bad

(now THAT must get your bladder bubbling ?!)

deadlydarcy - post of the week so far for me. i thank you.

If you were to bare your arms against me I might get the strangest boner. If you then were to bear arms against me, it would probably disappear quite quickly.

moved up there ^

a bear has bear arms, but not bare arms.
a shaved bear has both.
[how's your stranger DD?]

I dunno. Keep posting. 😮

[resists googling 'shaved bear']

Stick a "ve" in the right spot and google away.

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Salvation is here for you OP - and at last the chance of me to use something I learned at school - loose rhymes with goose, and everyone (according to my English teacher) knows that goose has two 'o's. Problem solved, your life saved, no need to thank me.

you gays

Donut bee sew homophonic.

homophonic

People who say brought instead of bought should have been aborted.

there just tryna comoonicate innit ?

homophonic

iz u sayin I iz gay ?

iz u sayin I iz gay ?

Seriously though guys, you should of known better. Time to put the breaks on this and go peddle our bikes.

Just remind me.....Which Tyler lead the pedant's revolt?

wiggles - Member
I genuinely don't know how to use affect/effect correctly...
Teach me
POSTED 8 HOURS AGO # REPORT-POST

This might help!

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/misspelling

I've not seen

[i]ur bik is Saracin[/i]

or

[i]u r xc jey boy[/i]

on here for years.

It's all lawn criticism these days.

How to comfort a grammar Nazi?

Their, there, they're.

This is why I have never successfuly managed learn how to use them correctly.

In terms of verbs,

Affect = change.
Effect = cause.

You could, if you were to cause a change, effect an affect.

That said, because "effect" is more commonly a noun meaning a result, if you were a magician's assistant and you cocked up his trick then you might affect his effect. I'm not helping much, am I dad?

As a rule of thumb, if you (x)ffect something, the chances are you've affected it. Effect as a verb is comparatively rare.
I'm

people who say writ instead of wrote, so they might say 'so I writ that down' ughh uggh ughhh

Those that express dislike for others' failings, when they should get their own house in order first. 😉

'Should of'

AAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH 😥

'Bare with me'.... well, are you a single attractive woman?

The use of capital letters at the start of sentences seems to be a dying art on this forum.

Effect is a noun meaning outcome, consequence, or appearance. (Her behaviour is having an effect on the class)
To affect is a verb meaning to transform or to change. (Her behaviour is affecting the class)

But what about Hung and Hanged? I hate it when people think Hanged is wrong!

The moving finger writes and, having writ,
moves on; nor all thy piety nor wit....

- have at thee, sirrah !

Things are hung, men are hanged.

Or well hung 😉

[i]Effect[/i]

So it's not how a Yorkshireman might respond when asked about the state of their broken down Land Rover?

"Ee, fect!"

beefheart - Member
People who say brought instead of bought should have been aborted.

Posted 9 hours ago #

should of, would of etc.
seriously boil my pish those do.
but probably mostly because my ex wife uses them.

Some people are dyslexic and can have a pretty frustrating time dealing with pedants. I'm not, but I recall the difficulty some of my friends had while studying and [s]discussions[/s] rants like this don't help.

There are bigger deals to wince about, such as the lack of punctuation in the original post 😉

It's important that proper grammar is perservered for future generations.

Incidentally, dd, that's a naked mole rat, not a shawn builder of dams.

They should arm bears, that would give those arms bearing hunters something to think about.

lens and lense is worse than loose and lose.

Imagine if someone's camera had a lose lense.

perservered, MMF?

its impordant dat proper grammer dis preserved 4 footure jennywations

MMF?

Yes please. #strangest

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perservered, MMF?

I went and done a misspelling on the long word.

right to bear arms?

Paws for thought.

Aslong as the message is clear not too fussed about 100% correct grammar and spelling, but yeah the fact that my own isn't very good probably [s]a[/s] [s]e[/s] [s]a[/s] [s]e[/s] affects my opinion.
did I get it right?

auto correct on mobile devices doesn't really help either, badly spelt* you can guess at what the word should have been, fat fingers + auto correct = completely unreadable
*nearly went with spelled

*peirs in*

I wish I hadnt' of started it now.

I've been teaching this stuff for years to kids who are learning English as a 2nd or 3rd language, and they almost never have a problem*. Why do so many native speakers struggle with it?

*not bigging my own teaching up here - a lot of them already know its/it's, their/there/they're etc when they come to me aged 9.

From the shop next door.
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a lot of them already know its/it's

Blimming iPhone auto-corrects [i]"its"[/i] to [i]"it's"[/i] - really irritates me.

I idly mentioned this to a friend, an educated lady who is a medical consultant, and she had no idea what I was on about or why I'd ever want to use "its" in a sentence. 😯

These misuses of the language are enough to make me go nucular 🙁

I'm not the best at spelling and my grammar is far from perfect but using an iPad, iPhone has made it much much worse. Auto correct is a pain but my fat fingers often miss the caps button or the full stop button or apostrophe button. I also assume that the auto correct will automatically put apostrophes in correctly etc but by the time I've finished typing a sentence I see what's been missed or incorrectly added and then have to navigate my fat finger into the correct spot to correct the error. So what would take 30 seconds to type now takes 5 minutes.

Basically I'm blaming technology.

my fat fingers often miss the caps button or the full stop button

It will generally do caps for you at the obvious places (e.g. start of sentences).

Full stops: just press space twice.

But apostrophes can be a pain.

People who don't drop their aitches on the letter aitch. Grammatical irony?