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Re:Young adults are struggling with their mental health by kmlx on Friday December 30, 2022 @09:35PM (#34192906)
> loose

since a few years ago i’ve noticed a trend where people write

“loose” (not firmly or tightly fixed in place; detached or able to be detached. "a loose tooth")

instead of

“lose” (be deprived of or cease to have or retain (something). "I've lost my appetite")

does anyone know what’s going on?

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Re:Young adults are struggling with their mental health by _mme on Friday December 30, 2022 @09:57PM (#34193039)
soy un perdedor
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Re:Young adults are struggling with their mental health by alar44 on Friday December 30, 2022 @10:49PM (#34193351)
The ubiquity of spellcheck and autocorrect. I can't spell for shit anymore.
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Re:Young adults are struggling with their mental health by sethammons on Saturday December 31, 2022 @06:58AM (#34195684)
Spellcheck without autocorrect taught me to spell. I would retry the word with a squiggly red line under it til it was good. Autocorrect doesn't allow this self-remediation and learning. Disable it :)
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Re:Young adults are struggling with their mental health by avx56 on Saturday December 31, 2022 @01:26AM (#34194191)
swipe-to-type?
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Re:Young adults are struggling with their mental health by goblinux on Saturday December 31, 2022 @02:31AM (#34194433)
i think it’s because choose and chose are pronounced different from loose and lose- but autocorrect has no idea the difference or context of use and so people throw whatever out there
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Re:Young adults are struggling with their mental health by mkl on Saturday December 31, 2022 @04:36AM (#34194967)
And "it's" instead of "its", "you're" and "they're" instead of "your" and "their", "weary" instead of "wary". Lots more people seem to be making these same mistakes.
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Re:Young adults are struggling with their mental health by hxugufjfjf on Saturday December 31, 2022 @01:12PM (#34199014)
"try and think" "would of" "could of" - english native speakers 2022
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Re:Young adults are struggling with their mental health by mkl on Saturday December 31, 2022 @04:37PM (#34201030)
Well, "try and" has been valid English for centuries [1], and "would of" and "could of" are not recent problems.

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/were-going-to-...

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Re:Young adults are struggling with their mental health by kmlx on Saturday December 31, 2022 @10:23PM (#34203257)
i understand making these mistakes, but it’s been getting worse in the past few years.
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Re:Young adults are struggling with their mental health by sixstringtheory on Saturday December 31, 2022 @11:15PM (#34203536)
I use swipe typing on my smartphone and it makes these and other close but wrong insertions all the time.
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Re:Young adults are struggling with their mental health by skocznymroczny on Saturday December 31, 2022 @09:36AM (#34196769)
For me as a non-native English speaker it might be a case of English having confusing pronunciations. Pronunciation of loose and lose is very similar if not the same (I probably couldn't tell them apart). One might expect lose to be pronounced similarly to words like hose, rose or pose.
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Re:Young adults are struggling with their mental health by kmlx on Saturday December 31, 2022 @10:27PM (#34203282)
i’m also not a native english speaker, but having to pass english certification exams made me a lot more of pronunciation.

loose is /luːs/

lose is /luːz/

notice the “s” and “z”. i’m sure this doesn’t help in languages where “s” and “z” are very close together phonetically.

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