To be loosing my patience...

[FellatioNelson]

Ooh Good! Now I've lured all you pedants in, with your catapults, back me up people.

I've just read my fourth frigging 'loose' of the day when the poster meant lose.

I don't pick holes in people's spelling generally/directly (unless they are wanky types) because it is a bit rude, and we aren't all perfect. (well I am obviously, but most of you aren't and I'm prepared to make allowances.)

But anyway, I'm starting to LOSE my rag with this one.

Listen up:

For future reference, if you consistently muddle up loose (baggy) with lose (to part with) and all associated words, including loser, (twat) looser (baggier) losing (not winning) loosing (no such word in common usage)

then please, for the love of God, think of Fellatio (yes, literally think of fellatio, if it helps) every time you write the word. Adopt a word association thing, and I can cure you forever.

Thank you. Public service announcement over.

I actually saw "Who'd of thought.." as the introductory line to the headline EDITORIAL of a magazine today and the same publication quoted a businessman as saying "if we loose an opportunity to another agent".

Give me strength.

I keep seeing this too - so glad I am not the only one with a picky mind.
The other one that I keep seeing is people saying they are "weary" of something when they mean "wary".

annec - maybe they really do mean they're tired of it, rahter than cautious of it

Fellatio - try what my mum always used to do - she was not well-schooled (dyslexia amongst other things), and when we were kids, if we needed to know something, she would go "let's look it up, shall we?". It worked every time, because it meant that she learnt something, and we wouldlearn something, too, without getting any of it wrong.
You do need a set of encyclopaediae though...

I am sure that, on here, I commit all kinds of sins! A couple of times I have spotted a post where I have put 'our' instead of 'are', as well as the usual to/too knew/new and I careless abandon commas all over the place! I don't know what you call it, because I know the difference (I used to proof read FGS) and my typing is generally fast but correct - so why does my brain do this when I am typing?? I would never make the same mistakes when handwriting - there's something odd happening

Pacifically with loose/lose I was totally fine until I spent too much time on here, having seen loose far too many times, I have to think about it before I type it!!! LOL

(Pacifically thrown in, just to keep the pedants annoyed amused! It's actually one of my pet hates!!! Evil Grin)

You will be changing people with this tread fellatio - I used to make this silly silly error but a similar thread long ago corrected my ways forever!

Chippingin Pacifically makes me . I knew a secretary who used this all the time (what the hell did she type I wonder) and she actually thought that the Ocean was the Specific Ocean.

Chippin - over the past few days, I have put two instead of too and vice versa. I have never made that error in my life before, and it's scaring the bejeezus out of me.

We have far too much in common

" I would never make the same mistakes when handwriting - there's something odd happening "

Yes, me too. I KNOW the rules and I would never do it when writing but on here I can get its/it's, too/to, knew/new and know/no all mixed up. I honestly think my ability to write this stuff without thinking has got worse since I started texting, and I do leave out the odd apostrophe/ contract something to save space. I do not use text speak :o

I wish it was more socially acceptable to correct adult spelling.

You mean it isn't completely acceptable?

I do it all the time, along with correcting peoples' grammar when they speak. Winds some people up no end, but who cares. Not to say I'm perfect, of course, but I acually appreciate it when people correct me so...

gentlyfalling - I'm happy to correct you. It is extremely rude to correct other peoples' grammar when they speak (or write).

ChippingIn - why exactly do you think it is extremely rude? That's a geuine question btw, I'm not trying to start a row or anything...

I have the same pedant rage over the misspelling of the word 'counsellor' and 'counselling' on here. I don't understand how, in a thread where someone suggests having 'counselling' someone can respond two or three posts later and STILL spell it 'councelling' or 'councilling'!! I mean, it's already written correctly in the post above, why spell it differently?? Or do those misspelling it think theirs is the correct spelling?

Argh, getting myself agitated now, hehe.

Also: it's and its.

Gentlyfalling - I don't know if I can explain why it's rude, it just is! There must be things you find rude, but can't exactly explain why (like burping, spitting in the street).

gentlyfalling it is all to do with the fact that you can't correct anyone on anything unless they ask.

it's manners.

ChippinIn - fair enough

nickelbabe - you can't correct anyone on anything? Seems a little extreme...I'll remember that next time someone mispronounces / mis-spells my name....

Just to be clear I only do this with friends and close family, not random people in shops or anything...

You do it with friends - and you still have friends

no, it's fine to do it with your name!

only friends when they say you can - as in "oh, I can never work out where to put the verb, if i get it wrong can you remind me?"

ChippinIn - yes thank you, and some of them correct me just as often, which I appreciate.

nickebabe - I was joking with the name thing tbh...

Well I did it with my mum once (after getting exasperated with hearing her say 'expresso' for the hundredth time, and she got a bit huffy with me!!!

nickelbabe - possibly - but it would make for slightly odd comments in some of the contexts I have read it in!

I keep doing it to DH - typical sittingbourne born and bred, he mixes tenses.
Like this morning, I had to get out of bed before him, and he said "oh, the covers come off" sp I spent a while explaining to him that if the covers come off, then it means that they're continously doing so, as in it's their job, but he meant "the covers came off" or "have come off"

after i'd finished, it occurred to me that he might have said "the cover's come off" (because we have a duvet). But I decided not to say anything