this post was submitted on 25 Oct 2024
161 points (99.4% liked)
Asklemmy
43950 readers
1054 users here now
A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions
Search asklemmy π
If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!
- Open-ended question
- Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
- Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
- Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
- An actual topic of discussion
Looking for support?
Looking for a community?
- Lemmyverse: community search
- sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
- !lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities
~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
All the people typing "loose" when they mean "lose". Shit's been happening a lot for the past year or two and I don't know why.
It's just the natural evolution of language. Rules become loser over time
Some rules weaken, and others are created or subtly change - that's why parents can never get their kids' slang quite right. It's not that the parents can't simply weaken their grammar, it's that the kids do some things differently with very strict rules.
Literally this
It's been happening a lot longer than that, that's a classic misspelling.
Thank you for writing 'a lot' and not 'alot'.
Butthole must be loose.
I know of a multi-million dollar company that was about to launch a new marketing campaign. We are talking ads, dozens of trucks getting rewrapped, marketing materials, catalogs featuring the tagline; the whole nine. It would have been tens of thousands of dollars spent.
They used "loose" instead of "lose" in the tag. The error was caught by the CEO's secretary without a degree.
It had gotten past upper management and the marketing department without being noticed.
Because phonetically, it's "loos" vs "looz". And people don't care enough to know or apply the difference.