Been trying to hold it in, but....

[RastaRicanAir 0]

To lose something, is to fail to retain it, win it, or take advantage of it.
To loose something, is to release, undo, or let fly with it.

EG: If you lose your car keys, it means you can't locate them. If you loose them, it means you've released them into the wild to fend for themselves.

You can lose your temper, then loose your wrath, but it's grammatically improbable to loose your temper directly.

And of course, if one day you "lose your sh*t," I hope I can help calm you down. But if you "loose your sh*t," I will have to immediately leave the room.

Carry On.

OrFunV/LocoBoca Rodriguez/Sonic Grieco/Muff Brother #4411
-"and ladies....messin with Robbie is venturing into territory you cant even imagine!-cuz Robbie is

[GTAVercetti 0]

Loose is generally an adjective in today's day and age.

Why yes, my license number is a palindrome. Thank you for noticing.

[popsjumper 2]

...and you use the term loosely...loser.

My reality and yours are quite different.
I think we're all Bozos on this bus.
Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239

[J_Cook 0]

There needs to be a post done for your/you're and there/their/they're.

[beezyshaw 0]

Hey Robbie, here's another one that bugs the crap out of me. Why the hell do people not understand the difference between "there" and "their", and between "to" and "too"

There, now I too feel better.

[chaoskitty 0]

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Hey Robbie, here's another one that bugs the crap out of me. Why the hell do people not understand the difference between "there" and "their", and between "to" and "too"

There, now I too feel better.

There, now. I, too, feel better.

[StreetScooby 5]

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There, now. I, too, feel better.

And to think the Speaker's Corner folks say that Bonfire people just look at booby pictures

We are all engines of karma

[freeflir29 0]

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And to think the Speaker's Corner folks say that Bonfire people just look at booby pictures

Where?







Robbie............that bugs the shit out of me too. I laugh and grumble a little every time I see it.

[cameramonkey 0]

things like that annoy the crap outta me.

There is a book out there that is called "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation" http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1592400876/sr=8-1/qid=1150391627/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-4975952-0867049?%5Fencoding=UTF8

the back cover explains the title, and is somewhat humerous. it gives you some insight as to the approach taken by the author.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/sitbv3/reader/ref=sib_dp_pop_bc/103-4975952-0867049?%5Fencoding=UTF8&pageID=S070&asin=1592400876

Beleive it or not, its actually VERY well written, and if you find yourself annoyed at the lose/loose its/it's stuff, you will enjoy reading it. I actually stood for 15 mins in the bookstore being entertained by it. Now if only my english teachers could have been so entertaining, I wouldnt NEED that book today.

Two wrongs don't make a right, however three lefts DO!

[NWFlyer 2]

Love that book. I'm reading another one of her books right now, Talk to the Hand.

"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke

[gofast_ER 0]

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There needs to be a post done for your/you're and there/their/they're.

I am guilty of that. Most the time I type faster than I think. Oh yeah what about than and then?
I am pretty good with lose and loose though. After my mom made a jackass out of me for making that mistake over and over. She finally called me on it.

I may not agree with what you have to say but i'll defend to the death your right to say it.

[kelel01 1]

I know what you saw. Because I saw it, too.

How about "advice" and "advise"? The difference in pronunciation is SO FUCKING CLEAR. I don't get it!

[LisaM 0]

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There needs to be a post done for your/you're and there/their/they're.

and A LOT!!!!!!

~ Lisa
~ Do you Rigminder?

[goofyjumper 0]

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To lose something, is to fail to retain it, win it, or take advantage of it.
To loose something, is to release, undo, or let fly with it.

EG: If you lose your car keys, it means you can't locate them. If you loose them, it means you've released them into the wild to fend for themselves.

You can lose your temper, then loose your wrath, but it's grammatically improbable to loose your temper directly.

And of course, if one day you "lose your sh*t," I hope I can help calm you down. But if you "loose your sh*t," I will have to immediately leave the room.

Carry On.

Boy, you must be bored!

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I love and Miss you so much Honey!
Orfun #3 ~ Darla

[popsjumper 2]

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Love that book. I'm reading another one of her books right now, Talk to the Hand.

Ruh-roh....this thread is going to take a sharp turn.

My reality and yours are quite different.
I think we're all Bozos on this bus.
Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239

[EricaH 0]

one way that's easiest to use to remember this is that lose lost an o

also between dessert & desert, in a deset an s deserted ran away...

There is no can't. Only lack of knowledge or fear. Only you can fix your fear.

PMS #227 (just like the TV show)

[ACMESkydiver 0]

I just knew the grammar police was on her way...I could hear the sirens all the way from the forums list!

~Jaye
Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action.

[mfrese 0]

People who think spelling and grammar aren't important have probably never sent out meeting minutes with "hard disks" misspelled as "hard dicks". I had a hell of a time explaining how we were going to distribute those to our customers.

Doctor I ain't gonna die,
Just write me an alibi! ---- Lemmy/Slash

[NWFlyer 2]

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People who think spelling and grammar aren't important have probably never sent out meeting minutes with "hard disks" misspelled as "hard dicks". I had a hell of a time explaining how we were going to distribute those to our customers.

Those are the same people who think spell check will fix everything! At my first job out of college (where we did a lot of consulting for the public sector), we actually took the word "pubic" out of the spell-checker so that it would always be flagged.

"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke

[freeflir29 0]

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"Skydivers are morons".

Can we bring up punctuation as well? Rules like "Punctuation goes INSIDE the quotation marks."

[NWFlyer 2]

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"Skydivers are morons".

Can we bring up punctuation as well? Rules like "Punctuation goes INSIDE the quotation marks."

I'm disturbed by the fact that I'm finding myself strangely attracted to you right now.

[kelel01 1]

You should be. Disturbed, that is.

[mfrese 0]

Hey, the spell checker didn't pick it up, it must be right. Beside, weren't we trying to get NWflyer to say something about hard dicks again?

Doctor I ain't gonna die,
Just write me an alibi! ---- Lemmy/Slash

[NWFlyer 2]

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Hey, the spell checker didn't pick it up, it must be right. Beside, weren't we trying to get NWflyer to say something about hard dicks again?

I already said pubic!!!!

Shouldn't you be out delivering hard dicks?

[mfrese 0]

To whom? And whose?

If i send them over there, they're probably going to get their little helmeted heads in trouble. In other words, if I let them loose, someone is bound to lose something.

Jesus, I need a vacation. And a beer.

Doctor I ain't gonna die,
Just write me an alibi! ---- Lemmy/Slash