Lose versus Loose --- NOT picking on anyone, I promise
Now, you WILL find typos in my posts and you may find grammar errors... I'm not perfect. And if you saw me in person (still working on posting a picture), you'd want to fix my hair or my makeup or straighten my clothes, most likely.... but..... I cribbed the information below from a site called Lesson Tutor by an Elaine Ernst Schneider and I think it explains things VERY well. Kudos to Ms. Schneider....
LOSE means to lack the possession of, to come to be without.
LOOSE means not tight.
LOOSEN means to unfasten something or make it less constraining.
Examples:
The hockey team doesn't want to lose the game.
The girl had such a bad sunburn that she could only wear loose clothes.
I am so frustrated! I always seem to lose my keys.
Loosen your hold on the bat. You are gripping it much too tightly!
Anyway, I truly hope I didn't offend anyone and I want to make friends here but you know how some people can't resist straightening a crooked picture on a wall.... well, grammar is it for me.
Have a FABULOUS holiday weekend.
Kat70
I am 4" 11" HW: 207 SW: 190 CW: 163 Surgery date: 9/23/10
HW - 225 SW - 191 GW - 132 CW - 122
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So unless I find something glaringly obvious, it might slip by me. And my major in college was English.
But I read typos very well. :) I have a friend who can't spell worth beans. I just ignore it.
Have you ever see this:
I cluod not blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid. Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch sudty at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? Yaeh and I awlyas thgouht slpeling was ipmorantt.
It actually works.
Liz
Duodenal Switch (Lap) 01-24-11 | Surgeon: Stephen Boyce | High weight: 250 in 2002 | Surgery weight: 203 | Lowest weight: 121 | Current weight: 135 | Goal weight: 135
HW-218/SW-208/CW-126/ Lowest Weight-121/Goal-125 - hit 8/23/09/Height-5'3"
Regain 30 lbs from 2012 to 2016 - got back on track and lost it. Took 8 months.
90+/- pounds lost BMI - 24 or so
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I certainly have typos, too, and I haven't seen a way to edit posts on here though some of you technical wizards probably know how...
One of the last big medical transcription companies I did editing for sent a lot of their work out to India (I think they all do now)... I was editing a report where it was supposed to say "the patient had AVMs in her colon (which is an acronym for arteriovenous malformations)." The MT in India typed it out "avians in her colon," which means..... drumroll please.... she had birds up her butt.....
Another nurse kept dictating that a man had a "penile lesion in his brain" instead of a "pineal lesion in his brain." Now we all know that many men have their brains in that location but not many have the opposite, I would think.
Hope you all have a fabulous holiday.
Kat70
I am 4" 11" HW: 207 SW: 190 CW: 163 Surgery date: 9/23/10
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5'1" -- HW 195/SW 187/GW 115 July 08/CW 121 Dec 2012
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Starting BMI between 35 and 40ish?
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Don't let our typos drive you so crazy that you can't enjoy our LW Board......
Roz
God is walking with me every step of the way. Because of HIM this is possible!!
RNY 10/15/2008 9+ Years!!! Height: 4' 11" HW: 203 SW: 197 CW: 119 on Maintenance
Meanwhile, I'm sure that my vanity drives others crazy, too. That's the thing I love about the LW board - we put up with each other so lovingly!
Springtime Challenge to reach goal of 130 in spring MET!!!
