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It seems to avoid niche and profession specific coinages pretty well so they must be looking for candidates to spill over into more general usage. I wonder if
by oldcynic 8y ago
It seems to avoid niche and profession specific coinages pretty well so they must be looking for candidates to spill over into more general usage.
I wonder if they're uniq -c everything lodged at the British Library each year.
They're descriptive rather than prescriptive so are constantly adapting to new usages, and spellings. Which probably means that it's only a matter of time before "loose" is an accepted spelling of "lose" rather than an entirely different meaning. :(
- lgessler 8y agoI was going to write something more cranky, and then I looked at your username and had a laugh. Irregardless of your perceptive on this, it is good to be self-conscience.
- oldcynic 8y ago> Irregardless of your perceptive on this, it is good to be self-conscience Well played! Perfectly acceptable internet usage. Especially in a world with auto-correct. :) Yet somehow lose/loose grates a little when a they're/their or it's/its doesn't. Possibly as the mental pronunciation has already led me down a blind alley. Or possibly I have no idea why. I almost never make comment.
- ghaff 8y agoI tend to suspect that lose/loose, break/brake, etc. are often a case of the user not knowing the difference as they often appear consistently in a comment. Whereas, even though I know the difference between it's and its (for example), I still just make a mistake now and then because of mental pronunciation. But I don't comment either although I notice and twinge a bit :-)