Lose not loose!

So I lose my money if I am too loose with it at a bar???

If you are too loose with it, a rouge might get it.

Oh goody! Finally! Thank you!
Another thing that annoys me utterly is seeing someone write "then" when they clearly mean "than". People also don't seem to remember distinctions between "there", "their", and "they're", not to mention the fact that they forget that apostrophes or question marks exist.
That's my rant

Cykur, you risk my furious rage. Repent, before it's too late. Grr.

My mother learned spelling and grammar from a college writing teacher. If the teacher caught a mistake that a student and their partner missed, both automatically failed the assignment. They were allowed to do another assignment to make it up though.

Then my mother taught me. She would have me write a paper Then she would correct one mistake at a time, while having me redo the paper each time. It took hours and hours. As tough as it was, it worked and I'm happy for it. Now I see errors all the time; I can't look at my local newspaper without thinking that they really need a proofreader.

Though everybody makes mistakes from time to time.

Protip: If you can't read what you wrote, nobody else can.

Mistakes are human, not having English as my mother tongue I make my share of them as well. But what I can't stand at all is when someone obviously never reads his own postings before posting them. Lack of knowledge is forgivable, repeated lack of effort isn't.

It's a very common typo in computer game text, as well.

The saying is "I couldn't care less" not "I could care less".

We are posting in threads not threats and people can be members of guilds not guilts.

And something is addictive not addicting!!

When something is alternate, it tends to switch between two states, rather than when it is alternative, which means what most people intend alternate to mean.
In other words, saying someone lives an alternate lifestyle implies they have a lifestyle every other day.
In recent years, however, this mistake has become so common that even the Oxford English Dictionary has started to merge the two meanings, giving each meaning as "alternate" to the other



Unfortunately, this sort of practice has completely vanished from at least the Australian Queensland education system. I'm rather glad, then, that I have English as a second language, and understand it thoroughly only because I learnt German (so violations of the subjunctive still hurt me deeply ) the hard way, at school.

Excuse my (second) rant

If I was you I'd losen up about the subjunctive. >.>

That was painful to write.

I wrote a sarcastic reply in like manner...even threw in leetspeak... promptly lost 50 IQ points and forgot what was supposed to be funny about it.

Thank you for this thread. I too am tired of seeing 'loose' in the place of 'lose'.

You sound like you need to losen up.

Also, the amount of people misspelling ridiculous is ridiculous.

Anyway, i could care less, but it's not worth the trouble.

'Turrent' is not now, nor was it ever, an actual word. Please drop it from your vocabulary.

Thanks!

I actually find that more accurate than the other. If I couldn't care less, I wouldn't be here.

I think that is the point! It must be this threat! I think it is addicting people.

Accept and except are almost never used correctly. I don't know how many times I've read statements like "We had a great time accept for the motorcycle gang beating people up." Then there are people who also spell it wrong as in "acept". In my head I always pronounce it asept, which is annoying.

Another problem is people saying "I would of gone but it was raining." Try using the word "have" in that situation instead of "of".

Also, "of" and "off" are not the same word. Confusing because they both feature the letter "o" and "f", but the carefull writer will notice that "off" has two f's. One turns the light "off". One might become the King "of" Spain.

Aaargh!
I feel like writing a third rant now...
"Affect" and "effect" are two different words. "Affect" as a noun is rather archaic by now; its closest modern definition is the corresponding noun to "affected behaviour", or rather, "affectation" in terms of behaviour. In baroque music (as the German "Affekt") it referred to the general programmatic "point" to a piece, loosely defined.
"Affect" as the verb is as most people use it - simply, to influence, or change slightly.

"Effect" is what people usually mean used as a noun. The noun means "a result", as in "cause and effect". It is a consequence brought about by an action or event.
As a verb, it means "to bring about".
Therefore, one may have an affect to effect a change in a system, so that the effect of change was brought about because the system was affected. There!
I think I'm becoming more arrogant as the discussion grows...

yo guys r awsome!! my gramar and spling r getting batter with avery post!!   

hokd an fahnicz werced fer mee!

I must say that you've all restored some of my faith in humanity.

I was really expecting nothing but so-called flaming and back-lash. It is heartening to see I'm not the only one who cares about the degradation of the English language.

Oh and I am British by the way so it is my duty!

Cheers.

Well, since you weren't pointing fingers at anyone specific, nobody's likely to jump to the defense of their own idiocy.

At least, I'd certainly hope not...

*grins* Very good point.

Cheers.