I support everyone here. I have seen breaks/brakes, lose/loose not only here but everywhere on the venerable net. What seems sad to me is that I don’t see it as a typo. That I can understand. Everyone does it.
I like to have fun with english, it’s a fun language and I do in my daily comings and goings. But in the written form, please show some respect to the person reading it.
Also, and this may be open to criticism but when I see the same mistake made by the same person over and over again, I tend to make assumptions about that person. Not right, I know, but…
I was on craigslist a couple weeks ago looking at singles ads for grins and giggles. I read one posted in Men seeking Women. He did not have one capital letter, not one comma, and not one period, and tons of misspellings. I was NOT impressed.
Sorry, you loose. The break / brake idiocy is not as bad as the loose / lose idiocy.
Besides, someone will come by soon to tell us that you can spell or pronounce things any way you want because–
“English is a living language! It is natural that word usage, spelling, etc. changes over time. For example, it is not incorrect to spell “idiotic” using any random consonants (for example, “hdvxzzzt”) because language changes, you see!”
So it’s KO that were loosing them battle to the hdvxzzzts. Tri putting the breaks on pore usage and yer only gettin in teh way of progress!
Well, not really; a lot of people probably confuse the apostrophe in “it’s” with the similar use of the apostrophe to denote possession. It’s a case of over-generalization: they think: If I would write “I stepped on the dog’s tail,” then why not “I stepped on it’s tail?”
English is NOT my native language. It’s not my first language, it’s my second. And yet I make the effort every day and every minute, to write it correctly and speak it correctly. I love the English language, with all of its idiosyncrasies and oddities and everything weird about it. So why can’t native speakers do the same?
This is not a “variant” spelling - those are the wrong words. Those two words mean something completely different. You may utilize whatever spelling/grammar/words you like, I suppose, but don’t expect me to read it and respect you. It’s one thing to claim ignorance. It’s another to claim “I just don’t care”.
GRR!
The lose/loose battle is almost lost, I fear. But I and others will still fight the good fight! Besides, break/brake look totally different, in my eyes much more different than lose/loose.
It’s/its I am way more forgiving of. That is a tough one.
The other skin-crawling one to me is the use of then when the user means than. Sally is not smarter then you, she is smarter than you, and she probably uses then and than correctly.
While I’m a card-carrying member of the Grammar Nazi Party, my take on this (after much sad exposure to it on the Web) is that I’m not quite as bothered by people who constantly make the same spelling errors as I am by people who spell a given word several different ways, sometimes in the same sentence. At least the former are consistent, whereas the latter aren’t even making a minimal effort.
Give me a brake. I acknowlidge that people like good spelling but it is not a good arguement that they should acomodate your short temper. They should make a comitment not to embaress themselves any more. The exitance of spelling errors is not a lisense to chastize them. But if you persavere, the less ocurance of bad spelling will make you feel better… You should withold judgement and procede to a nonjudgemental stance. I thank you for your indespensible assistence.
A problem with many message boards is that there isn’t a lot of interaction between members/commentators. They submit their inane post in all its ungrammatical glory, then just silently sit back and say nothing regarding whatever comes after them. Correcting them, therefore, is a mute point.