Lose vs Loose

yeap.

LOL. I assume this is directed at me as I managed to get an extra o in my post about not expecting loose skin after losing weight. I noticed it earlier and rolled my eyes at myself.

You spelled douchebag wrong, btw.

GWEN- An extra o ????? That's it...I'm reporting you, to the ABC police!

I'd say your punishment is to run 10 extra laps...but you would ENJOY that !!

Nah...loose...lose...douche..doosh...********if I let these things get to me, I couldn't be on my 16th straight year here...

Got too much of my OWN crap, that irks me...

I'm glad that people mess up with spelling and grammar on the interwebz, it's one of the only ways that I can actually feel superior to complete strangers!!

Research has shown that "grammar police" tend to indeed be douchebags.

There's A Reason People Generally Find the GP Annoying... (they are)... and if anyone doesn't feel like reading the entire linguistical study, here's a summary of the abstract: "people who feel compelled to correct others grammar and spelling tend to be disagreeable, close-minded, and conscientious anti-socials."

My husband bought me a tee shirt that says, "I'm silently correcting your grammar." And I am. :D I find the improper use of apostrophes to be the worst. Especially when they're used in the same sign correctly an then incorrectly. For example: "Hot Dog's! Three for 2 dollars!" COME ON!!

Jen

JEN - On something like THAT - I totally agree with you - or if I was writing for a public newspaper or something...

But for a seldom posting person to randomly *****nah...it's not even *****fest Wednesday yet!

My boys used to go to daycare/after school program, where the director put out a weekly "newsletter"...Now THAT thing drove me nuts!!! It was always full of wrong words, misused abbreviations, run on sentences, etc, etc...I'm thinking "Y'all are TEACHING my babies???"...I would use red Sharpie on it, EVERY week, doing my "corrections", and put it back in her mailbox. It turned out she had dyslexia, and whatever else, and apparently nobody ever had the interest or guts to tell how awful her newsletters were. I SHOULD have kept my red Sharpie to my own damn self...I wound up writing the newsletters, for the next 5 years :)

Haha, that's awesome! I would have been mortified if I'd done that, so good for you for stepping up and doing the newsletter. I never call people out on boards because of misspellings and such, mostly because it takes energy I don't care to expend, but I do correct it in my head. I'm like the Roz in Monsters Inc. "I'm always watching!" :D

Jen

Other parents were making fun of her newsletters, and throwing them down, in the parking lot! LITTER! I had one of my "Christian moments"...and it bit me, in the butt, for 5 years..lol...We became great friends. Her mom owned the daycare, and 4 others. She hired me as "school nurse", for the 5 centers, and she purchased the necessary packages for their insurance to pay for my WLS...that's how I got my surgery!!! AND the Director's middle son is my Godson! Great things CAN happen out of weird things :)