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To want to punch ALL the people...

61 replies

fillimum · 31/12/2009 09:23

... who talk about wanting to 'loose weight'? On any weight loss topic on this site and on others I would say that about 75% of people write loose when they clearly mean lose. ARGH!!! I am not overly pedantic about grammar and spelling etc (well I am a little) but the amount of times I see this drives me to distraction!

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GibbonInARibbon · 31/12/2009 09:25

want to punch them?

MamaLazarou · 31/12/2009 09:27

Aaaand strech out...

And shake out...

And relax

tinalane · 31/12/2009 09:34

End Breeth deiplie!

Ommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!

Perhaps an alternative spelling is emerging!

PurpleEglu · 31/12/2009 09:35

I am a Weight Watchers leader and I see leaders writing loose on our website. That makes me want to scream. Our job is about losing weight yet half of the mcan't spell it.

tethersjinglebellend · 31/12/2009 09:43

YANBU.

I am an overweight pedant. Life is hard.

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fillimum · 31/12/2009 09:55

Wow Purple - I nearly became a leader before I moved overseas and I reckon my irritation with this would have got be 'defrocked'

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madamearcati · 31/12/2009 10:49

LOL I was thinking the same thing the other day (but maybe not the punching bit).I saw a slogan on a kids top in M & co the other day with a slogan which used the word 'loose' when it meant 'lose'
AAAgghh!!!

FimBOW · 31/12/2009 10:51

Brought instead of bought really sets my teeth on edge.

YANBU, btw.

emsyj · 31/12/2009 10:53

I have a particular 'thing' about 'lend' and 'borrow'. You didn't LEND the jumper, you BORROWED it - your friend LENT it to you.

Grrrr

I blame my mother. She was a primary school teacher, i.e. professional pedant.

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fillimum · 31/12/2009 11:01

LOL - I am a teacher too... maybe that is the source of it! Another one - affect and effect... grrrr .Brought and bought does it for me too!

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fillimum · 31/12/2009 11:02

Madam - In M&S???? FFS!

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cocolepew · 31/12/2009 11:03

You can spell better than other people. Big wow.

Squishabelle · 31/12/2009 11:08

Another one here who just cannot understand how anyone can be so thick and stupid enough to confuse brought with bought.

madamearcati · 31/12/2009 11:16

Not M& S but M& co which I think used to br McKays ?

pippaNnippa · 31/12/2009 11:25

you attitude is disgusting- I'm dyslexic and my spelling is awful- should I be punched? Am I stupid?

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fillimum · 31/12/2009 11:29

cocolepew - it is not about being able to spell 'better' it is about confusing two entirely different words.

Madam - I thought that the whole of British society was crumbling there! Phew!

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diddl · 31/12/2009 11:31

"of" instead of "have".

JaneS · 31/12/2009 11:38

fillimum - the point is, most of these words look similar. I can't do 'lose' and 'loose'. I know there are two different words but I can never remember which way to spell them. This is totally different from grammar questions - using 'of' instead of 'have' indicates that you don't understand the basic grammatical structure. But there's little logic behind much English spelling.

I'm a right pedant too but I think you should acknowledge that mis-spelling some words doesn't really say a lot about your intelligence level.

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fillimum · 31/12/2009 11:46

PippaNnippa - as I said earlier, I am a teacher and a huge part of my day is working with kids with learning disabilities. I do not think that you, or them, should be punched or that you are stupid because you are dyslexic but I am driven to distraction by people who do not have a reading or writing diagnosed problem continuously writing the wrong word. Unless there is a huge, as yet undiscovered, link between fatness and dyslexia I think that the majority of people are being stupid. Is it too Daily Mail to say that education is going to the dogs?

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GibbonInARibbon · 31/12/2009 11:51

I must say fillimum when my DD starts school I do so hope she gets a teacher like you. Why, you are compassion and charm personified [sarcasm]

JaneS · 31/12/2009 12:10

Fillimum, why does it matter so much? I can understand you caring that someone understand which word is which, and caring that someone understands grammar, since grammar underlies logical thought. But surely a simple, 'oops, you mis-spelt that' would do for the lose/loose example? Why does it matter?

I'm a PhD student in English and I'm studying how people learn to read, why they mis-read, that sort of thing. It's fascinating and much more complex than you might think - I certainly agree that if a teacher can't have patience with mis-spelling, education really is going to the dogs. I had a primary school teacher who used to be furious when I wrote the wrong thing, even though it wasn't deliberate, and she really made me hate school for a long time. Please don't do the same for others.

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fillimum · 31/12/2009 12:45

I think I am losing interest in this post

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cornsilkcremeeggspotter · 31/12/2009 12:49

You are a teacher and you work with kids with learning disabilities? In what context?

GibbonInARibbon · 31/12/2009 12:52

Losing interest why fillimum? Because not everyone is agreeing with you?

skihorse · 31/12/2009 12:59

YANBU

Was not were.

I didn't even realise that people really did confuse lend and borrow until I was in my 20s - I couldn't conceive how it could even be possible.