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Fun fact, the current pronunciation of “lose” likely comes from people in the past confusing it with “loose”! Quoting the OED:
The regular modern English pronunciation representing Old English losian would be /ləʊz/; the standard English pronunciation /luːz/ seems to be due to association with LOOSE v., which in some contexts (e.g. to loose hold) closely approaches this verb in meaning.
Otherwise it would probably be pronounced as /ləʊz/ (similar to nose, pose, close, etc.).
So people in the past doing the conflation - totally fine, accepted, and normal. Because that’s what you learned from the start. But people now doing the same kind of conflation - unacceptable, illiterate, stupid. Because that’s new and different.
People are afraid of change, who knew…
Lowe’s
You loost me on this one.
*lawst
*LAOUGHWPFST
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:.|:;
languages are fluid and can evolve
Yes but that’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard. They’re two different words used to explain different concepts. Just spell them and articulate yourself correctly.
Or in this case, devolve.
I was actually corrected on this not too long ago, and I am happy to report that I now remember the correct spelling!
You ready to take on accept vs. except now?
How about affect and effect?
Effect causes shit to happen and affect is the cause from shit happening
You’re gonna want to reverse that.
I am totally okay with this tbh, it’s one of the words that I struggled with when I learned English in school. It makes no sense that lose and loose sound the same.
They don’t. One is lose (loo-zz), the other is loose (loo-ss).
Not sure if you’re joking or completely unaware that they don’t actually sound the same…
I’d wager they sound the same to most non-native speakers in a casual conversation.
Yeah, just like news and noose sound the same /s
Guess what?
All of Italian sounds the same to me, a non-native speaker.
It does sound the same to me as a non-native speaker, but if i can spell it right and understand the difference, you can too. Because there’s tougher language out there, like chinese, that you can say the exact same sounding word but mean different thing. As a chinese myself, that’s how i learn the important of getting the word right.
Haha yeah totally /s
I spell lose as lose :3
When I was learning english I used to confuse the spelling though, cause the word lose to me sounds like the same sound as the double o in other words :3. Though once I got used to the weird english spelling rules I fixed that problem. Now if only I could remember which way round desert and dessert are…
Now if only I could remember which way round desert and dessert are…
Handy memory trick on that one, the one you want more of has more S’s in it.
Native English speaker here, lose/loose are tough ones.
Looking at both words I could see how either one could be pronounced either way.
Thanks French (I suspect)!
It’s useful to keep in mind that written words are merely an attempt to record sounds, and when these spellings occurred these words were very likely pronounced much differently than today.
Neither word is of french origin, im pretty sure :3
Anywho, yeah I know a large part of why english spelling is the way that it is is because of things like the great vowel shift, which came after the spelling standardizations, as well as the mix of germanic, latin, and french (norman) influences all coming with their own spelling rules (as well as one off words borrowing spellings from other languages like spanish), but as someone coming from a language with pretty consistent spelling where loan words are adapted phonetically, the whole mess of having to know the origin of the word to even begin to vaguely grasp at the spelling was an adjustment lol.
I mean, the weirdest spelling related quirk in my native language is that we have letters referred to as “nasal letters” which are not in any way pronounced nasally hah :3 compared to english, it’s a walk in the park
Yes English is a complete train wreck of a language for multiple reasons, not just in terms of spelling and grammar, but every single aspect of the language. I do appreciate that it’s mostly non-gendered, but that’s just about the only win it has. English should have done what a few other languages did back around the 1800s and completely revamped how every single word is spelled to make it all uniform (and achieve a truly phonetic alphabet), but it’s kind of too late for that now.
As a non-binary person I do appreciate the ability to have non-gendered words in english :3 my native language has everything as male or female which is… Ugh
Also funny thing about the spelling reform - we had one here in like… the 19th century, though it was not because our spelling had gotten vastly inconsistent or anything, the main thing that was changed was that a lot of sounds written with polish inspired digraphs (sz, cz etc.) were replaced by czech inspired š, č, ž etc… and also the letter ł which was also a polish influence was removed… which is fair, we didn’t really have a use for it. We also still have the digraph ch :3
Either way, we used to often have things like old 18th or 17th century papers in our textbooks to read, and they were still perfectly readable with the old spelling if you knew those few changes, so it wasn’t a major change, though I do think it was a good one
Now if only I could remember which way round desert and dessert are…
My favorite deSSert is Strawberry Shortcake.
Everyone’s throwing out weird mnemonic with alliterative desserts… But it’s just “stressed” backwards.
If you’re stressed, you should have some desserts to calm down!
Same people that think you can target fat.
You can.
But with diet.
As my bodybuilder friends would say - abs are made in the kitchen (for them anyway, rest of us fatties just get less fat in the kitchen).
Breaking news: people on TikTok are illiterate; water is wet; sky is blue
It’s not just tiktok, I see people here (and everywhere) misuse “anymore” all the time these days. It needs to follow a negative!
Similarly, everyday is an adjective. Every day is when something happens daily.
🤓 ackchyually…
Water is not wet. Water makes things wet.
Water makes water wet. Checkmate, atheist.
Only if it’s a single atom of water, which would make it water vapor, not water.
If water makes things wet, then it makes the other water wet too.
I loosed it by losing 150 pounds. It’s a biological bummer that one can literally deflate themselves and things don’t re-tighten.
The bigger bummer is your fat cells don’t actually go away. They just shrink, so it’s easy to get fat again.
I bet your waste size dropped at least 5 sizes!
I dropped from a 52 to a 38. I’ve since gained 60 of those pounds back, but a lot of it’s muscle.
I kept the fat guy jeans to remind myself of where I started. Body dysmorphia’s a huge issue.
I am definitely one of those who makes typos and gets mad about this but - the internet needs to get more pedantic about spelling and grammar mistakes again.
Wouldn’t it be great if the internet automatically rejects any post that contains a lie or grammar/spelling error? The internet would get cleaned up SO DAMN QUICKLY! 😄
You laugh. I dream of this.
“Noone” is another one I’ve been seeing recently. Should be “no one”.
Less common but more confusing is using “are” for “our”.
More young people should be mad about the shitty education they got, instead of taking correction as a personal attack.
We couldn’t do a lot for my son, but we made damn sure he could read and write. He read well above grade level throughout school.
I’ve been following this English teacher on Instagram, who has had every attempt at getting kids to read thwarted by the school admins, who don’t want anything ‘woke’ or ‘political’ or too challenging in any way. Which left this teacher with an empty library by the time the admin was done.
So it’s not the kids’ fault, it’s not social media’s fault, it’s not even the teacher’s fault. It’s pearl clutching, conservative, anti ‘woke’, horse dewormer enjoying, piss drinkers that want these kids to stay stupid and unquestioning, and to have the reading ability of 5th graders.
I guess that if you put a bunch of religious fruitcakes that think science and education are woke devil magic in charge of things, you’re going to end up with poorly educated children. Who would’ve thought?
Come on, it’s a little social media’s fault, too. They also benefit from these kids staying stupid and unquestioning. I agree with everything else you said, though.
Spelling reform (the natural way) is spooky
This spelling has been around for a while now and it seems like it is here to stay. I hate it so much.
When the arm fat gets loose, where does it go?
Once it’s looseded, nobody knows where it goes.
My version of this is “casted”.
The past tense of cast is cast.
Inde Navarrette was not ‘casted’ as Rogue in the X-Men, but she was cast in the role. I’m sick of hearing illiterate idiots use that word every time some sort of movie news comes out.
