Loose = Not Tight

[TamanduaGirl]

Things like 'pwn' instead of 'own' and shortcuts

Wow I do that all the time as a legitimate mistake due to the two letters being right next to each other. Can't see anyone doing it on purpose. I get B's and M's mixed up too but did that way before I started typing. I'd write them mixed up for each other or a B that had fallen over on it's side so sort of an m ect. But I'm dyslexic so these things happen. Then there's space where they shouldn't be like over ron :P which I did but fixed earlier.

It actually gets worse as I get older because I have hypoglycemia and when ever the blood sugar drops below a certain point it kills brain cells. I plan to train a service animal sometime to detect when my blood sugar drops hopefully before it goes to a damaging point. Hyzzie has actually showed promise and alerted but due to her horrible past and baggage she could never make it as a service dog. I'm just not in a place that it's phesable yet but I will do it some day.

Kind of off topic but sometimes there's reasons for poor grammar and spelling. One of my best online friends has the worst spelling and grammar one has ever encountered but he's really smart and creative but most wont have anything to do with him because he doesn't type/spell well. He has legitamate reasons for it as well and can't help it. It's so bad spell checks do not help him but i'm finding the new spell check with fire fox to be nice now that it works for me

[sprokett]

Don't care what ya say - it LKS Wrong with only one lonely lil "O"!

And it's pronounced with the same Double-O as "Loose = Not Tight" ...

Maybe we otta change the "Lose Weight" Lose to LooZe !




I'm prolly "dating" myself ...

But what the heck is "Leet speak" ???

i AGREE completely

[CathyBogart]

I have a spelling checker.
It came with my pea sea.
It plane lee marks four my revue
Miss steaks aye can knot sea.

Eye ran this poem threw it,
Your sure reel glad two no.
Its vary polished in it's weigh.
My checker tolled me sew.

A checker is a bless sing,
It freeze yew lodes of thyme.
It helps me right awl stiles two reed,
And aides me when I rime.

Each frays come posed up on my screen
eye trussed too bee a joule.
The checker pours o'er every word
To cheque sum spelling rule.

Bee fore a veiling checker's Hour
spelling mite decline,
And if we're lacks oar have a laps,
We wood bee maid too wine.

Butt now bee cause my spelling
Is checked with such grate flair,
Their are no fault's with in my cite,
Of nun eye am a ware.

Now spelling does knot phase me,
It does knot bring a tier.
My pay purrs awl due glad den
With wrapped word's fare as hear.

To rite with care is quite a feet
Of witch won should be proud,
And wee mussed dew the best wee can,
Sew flaw's are knot aloud.

Sow ewe can sea why aye dew prays,
Such soft wear four pea seas,
And why eye brake in two averse
Buy righting too pleas.

-- Sauce Unknown

[cyber-sibes]

Ah, the easy way to remember:
Lose is derived from LOST. One o in lost. One o in lose.

Loose.... something has too much room

I memorized this little ditty and my threads have all been correct ever since! I'm so proud of myself!
No point to my comments, except to say "Thanks again catnapper & PT, for making me a better person!"
(BTW, Cathy, that poem is really cute!)

[RedHedd]

-- Sauce Unknown

I've seen that one before. I actually had a very hard time trying to figure out what it was saying and had to read that VERY slowly

My latest "rant" is .... 'noone' as frequently used when the writer intends to write "no one." It IS two words; there is no such word as noone, unless it's a person's last name.

[catnapper]

Digging up this thread because I've seen something a lot lately: "Prolly". What is that? I'm assuming its supposed to be "probably" but spelled wrong? Or is it spelled cute, like I say "the bestest meowmie in the world" I know bestest isn't a real word, but its cute.

Soooo... is probably another murdered word where they spell it like they say it (though I actually DO say probably)

[RedHedd]

I've seen that one too. I think a lot of these "shortcuts" are coming from text messaging - like the lack of apostrophes in contractions and possessives. I can understand using the shortcuts when you're text messaging (although I don't use them when texting and think it's just plain lazy), but when writing to a message board for everyone on the Internet to see, spelling the complete words out correctly is just good manners IMHO.

[AvaJoy]

I don't peruse many threads due to time contraints, but apparently spelling and grammar errors run rampant.

When I do post, I pride myself on attempting to use proper grammar, and refrain from the popular abbreviations, i.e. IMHO (gee . . . might you be expressing someone ELSE'S opinion, other than your own?? So unnecessary! )

I do tend to use " . . . " just to convey my continuity of thought; lazy, and probably incorrect, no doubt. And I am also guilty of not paragraphing as I should.

Not everyone has as an ability to express themselves in writing, and I do not dismiss a posting because there are blatant errors.

As long as the heart is in the right place, even if an apostrophe is not, I can overlook and still relate.

This is an informal pet talk forum where all should feel free to contribute as best they can; not English 101.

[Denyce]

I find some words to be just laziness. Prolly is one of them. I detest prolly. I have heard people use it when speaking. Another is "slippy". I heard that horrid word by a newscaster when she was discussing the condition of a parking lot. She said it was SLIPPY. I about choked on my drink.

Denyce

[Killearn Kitties]

I'm not sure that I have ever posted on one of these threads before (although there are a few posting habits that make me grind my teeth) but I had to comment on "slippy". What's wrong with it? I have always said slippy. That has been a perfectly reasonable word to use my whole life. Is it new to you, Denyce? Do you think os it as an abbreviation of slippery?

[Edwina's Secretary]

I'm not sure that I have ever posted on one of these threads before (although there are a few posting habits that make me grind my teeth) but I had to comment on "slippy". What's wrong with it? I have always said slippy. That has been a perfectly reasonable word to use my whole life. Is it new to you, Denyce? Do you think os it as an abbreviation of slippery?

Two countries separated by a common language....

This is the first time in my life I have ever seen (or heard) the word "slippy"!

Does it mean the same as "slippery"?

[JenBKR]

Funny Karen, I always thought that 'slippy' was native to western Pennsylvania. You hear it quite a bit around here. And to those who have never heard it before, it does mean slippery

[Killearn Kitties]

Funny Karen, I always thought that 'slippy' was native to western Pennsylvania.

Perhaps that explains it, since so many Scots settled in Pennsylvania.

[JenBKR]

Perhaps that explains it, since so many Scots settled in Pennsylvania.

I bet you're right - I have a lot of Scotish blood in me. And, there are still lots of other decendants of Scots here too. Funny how something like that would carry over and stick, several hundred years later!

[Denyce]

That is what I had assumed it to be is a lazy version of slippery. I had never heard it until I moved to PA. The same with prolly. They just bother me..*shrug* How much more difficult is it to say slippery or probably.

But then I had never thought it to be a slang from another country but then again it is still english therefore it is still just a lazy slang.

It also bugs me that a friend of mine can't seem to use our whole names. I am Den and my husband is Bri.

But...when all is said or done in the long run...who cares...it is all pretty unimportant. I just wouldn't ever say it myself.