| Title: | The Joy of Lex |
| Notice: | A Notes File even your grammar could love |
| Moderator: | THEBAY::SYSTEM |
| Created: | Fri Feb 28 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Jun 02 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1192 |
| Total number of notes: | 42769 |
Well, it's happened. There is now something that irritate's me more than the misuse of apostrophe's. It is the use of the word "loose" when "lose" is intended. I saw it in at least five different notesfile entries (not in JoyOfLex). I haven't noticed though -- is this a misuse or a misspelling? Do people make this same mistake when they are speaking? Clay
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 959.1 | SSDEVO::EGGERS | Anybody can fly with an engine. | Thu Apr 23 1992 10:22 | 17 | |
I've seen it several times also, I've done it myself, and I know
better. I'm far more willing to attribute it to carelessness than to
ignorance. I've never heard anybody make that spoken error.
What seems to happen to me is a disconnect between my thinking and my
mental spelling/typing algorithm. I also use other words wrong
occasionally:
do, due
to, two, too
won, one
affect, effect
choose, chose
etc.
The worst part is that I rely on SPELL too much, and it doesn't
find that class of misspellings.
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| 959.2 | Doomed | REGENT::BROOMHEAD | Don't panic -- yet. | Thu Apr 23 1992 11:00 | 4 |
Since "lose" rhymes with "choose", and the word "loose" exists at
all, the error will recur.
Ann B.
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| 959.3 | See also topic 808 | DATABS::LASHER | Working... | Thu Apr 23 1992 11:01 | 1 |
| 959.4 | re: .2 did you mean domed ;-) | PASTIS::MONAHAN | humanity is a trojan horse | Thu Apr 23 1992 23:21 | 1 |
| 959.5 | VANINE::LOVELL | � l'eau; c'est l'heure | Fri May 01 1992 04:20 | 6 | |
I wrote the 808 base note where this was discussed extensively It is interesting that was nearly two years ago written at a time when I noticed a peak in th misuse frequency. I have recently seen a significant increase in the frequency of this mistake, even in today's usually very correct VNS. It is my prediction that this will be one of those words that undergoes a metamorphosis and becomes accepted. | |||||