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Re:Silk Road 2.0: A concept of a distributed anonymous marke... by wf on Monday October 07, 2013 @06:26PM (#6511733)
This is way way off topic but it has been really bothering me lately: Why do so many people misspell "losing"? In the wrap up of the OP:

>The federated distributed marketplace will be much more difficult to shut down. And even in the case of shut down, no one is loosing their money.

I have been seeing this everywhere lately and someone even tried to argue with me that I was misspelling it. Why is this such a common screw up? Lose only has one o as does lost. I see no plausible explanation.

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Re:Silk Road 2.0: A concept of a distributed anonymous marke... by goshakkk on Tuesday October 08, 2013 @05:27AM (#6513776)
It's one of only a few words that I keep misspelling over and over again. But why post a comment dedicated solely to proper spelling of "lose" and wondering why so many people misspell it? What's the point?

If anything, you could submit a PR or just say "hey, there is a typo".

(Fixed now.)

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Re:Silk Road 2.0: A concept of a distributed anonymous marke... by bookface on Monday October 07, 2013 @06:29PM (#6511748)
Sounds to me like you're being intentionally daft. It's pretty easy to see that the /uː/ sound is associated with "oo" way more commonly than "o".
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Re:Silk Road 2.0: A concept of a distributed anonymous marke... by patrikr on Monday October 07, 2013 @07:15PM (#6511972)
The OP is a 16 year old from Belarus...
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