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Everytime I see someone misuse lose/loose, it makes me want to kill them with knives. It's important to be precise, you can't just work everything out from cont
by antipaganda 17y ago
Everytime I see someone misuse lose/loose, it makes me want to kill them with knives. It's important to be precise, you can't just work everything out from context!
- tomjen2 17y agoThen come up with simple rules (no more than 8 words total) for when to use one or the other. English has the most moddy grammar of all languages, with so many exceptions and shit - this is one of the things I hope disappear as the world embraces English.
- ajdecon 17y agoYou lose an object; unattached objects are loose. Which doesn't cover every case I can think of, but demonstrates the difference. Also lose is a verb, loose is (almost always) an adjective.