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Loose and lose; two words, two meanings. Is this not taught in school?

blog.tn38.net — Some people explained to me it was laziness, some that said, "it's a forum, so what?", others just insulted me. I'm very insensitive to insults and criticism but always look at the constructive angle and I struggled to find any in their responses, only support for what appears to me to be a poor understanding of the language.

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  • Paroparo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Don't we all just love grammatical prescriptivists?

    Weird category you put this in btw.
  • tn38, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The article was primarily aimed at web design and designers. Copywriters, I'm sure, wouldn't make the same mistakes.
  • mjjack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You might find this site useful: http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html

    When I come across errors like this I usually just point people to that site. One tha really bugs me is use to/used to.
  • tn38, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Great link Megan, thank you.
  • Quag, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Their, there, and they're. *shudder*
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