Lose not Loose... why?Follow

You know it is a common disease called stuttering finger disease.

The symptoms are as you type a letter your finger stutters and his the key more than once, in this case they happen to stutter on the O.

I really don't think it is nice of you for making fun of peoples disabilities.

Dunno for the US servers, but on the EU servers, only a small minority has English as their native language. There are other examples like whiping.

I've had quite some experience with english, but it's far from my native language. Occasionally I'm typing this word and become completely unsure about the spelling. And sometimes I just type a word, thinking I'm writing it down, and then get corrected on it. I learn from it, but it makes me aware my grammar is far from perfect. I think the same can be said for a lot of other people that don't have english as their native language.

Sometimes they are typo's, though. In combat I don't fix my typo's even if I see them before I press enter. I got other stuff to do than fix my grammar. Outside combat, I correct it if I see it in time, but most of the time, I already pressed enter and correct it on the next line.

I don't care about "loose". "U" drives me CRAZY. Ugh.

Ok you missed the whole essence of my post, there is no real stuttering finger disease, I was joking by saying that the people typing loose instead of lose had a dissability and you were picking on them for having said dissability.

But now it's just ruined. I am going back to work, what's the world coming to when I have to actually work while at work, oh the atrocity of it all.

I'm one of them, I know it's spelled lose but I keep typing loose. My mates give me grief for it and an hour later I do it again, mild form of dyslexia on my part maybe.

Other common examples are "deer/dear", "there/their/they're", and "loose/lose".


Loose and lose use the same "short o/u" sound, so one possibility is that people are spelling the words phonetically.

Also, the "loose" spelling looks like it would be correct, since the general rule of thumb for the english language is that when a word is in the "vowel-consonant-vowel" form, the first vowel will be a "long vowel" sound. Lose is an exception to the rule, since it looks like it should be pronounced "Lowes".

Ah the good old days! Being a bit loose with the language is quite common. But I think people should be forgiving if you can make sense of the meaning, as after all, we shouldn't lose sight of the fact that there a children playing. I like to "detect" other expat-brits on the US servers by mixing in a little colour, behaviour and rubbish.

Edited, Dec 19th 2006 12:20pm by dashwoe

I think it is interesting that "pwned" has become common usage. It was a mispelling of "owned", but some l33t player used it and everyone now thinks its cool and calls it "pawned." Right.

And "teh" is simply "the" mispelled too (and I do it by accident all the time). But it has become l33t speak along with "meh," whatever that means.

My sons talk l33t in real life and although I have explained that they are illiterate, I tolerate it because eventually it is I who will be considered illiterate when everyone else accepts the new idioms. Language is dynamic, and what we consider correct was once considered erroneous.

And I supose that very few people have a clue that l33t derives from the word elite, meaning a form of speech intended to show superiority. Badder is better.

Edited, Dec 19th 2006 1:18pm by AddictedFanatic

I used to firmly believe that video games don't make you stupid... until I played this game. The spelling I see is just... wow...

The one that really kills me is 'definitely'.

roll for role and vice-versa.

"I roled a new toon"
"What is my roll in a raid?"

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!

...and then there's always the classic - "rouge"

Edited, Dec 19th 2006 11:54am by ohmikeghod

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^^^ Best site to refer said misspellers to.

I dunno. I find that I change the way I say the two. When saying "lose", I place the emphasis on the "oo" sound, while when saying "loose" it goes more towards the "s" on the end. Perhaps it's just a regional thing, but I know that I can tell the difference between the two when someone uses them.

Regardless, minor spelling errors get on my nerves all the time. It's probably some form of OCD kicking in out of nowhere, but based on first impressions alone (mainly on forums) I quickly brand someone who makes amateur English mistakes constantly as a person I'd rather avoid.

Who, or what, is the KoolAider? Some kind of superhero invented by the marketing companies to sell red sugar water to children?