Why the fuck does nobody know the difference between loose and lose anymore? I swear this wasn't a thing that was commonly confused a few years back.
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That's the least of the grammatical problems in that post.
"We can't say how much pissed we are because you would see how greed we really are."
:eyetwitch:
Yeah, I just assumed that English wasn't the writers first language.
If only someone could invent some kind of computerised grammar checking utility. ;)
You clearly aren't from an "english is the third language" country. I would not write like that but also I didn't notice the grammar errors until they were pointed out, my brain filtered them through.
There's a lot of stuff where native speakers make more mistakes than people who learn the language later in life, though. Not just with English.
It's vs. its is a classic, which is written very differently in many other languages. I suspect they mix them up less when they switch to English.
It's/its is also common mistake with non-native speakers.
The really obvious one is using of instead of instead of have. Would of. Should of. Could of. From would've, should've, could've. Non-native speakers will rarely if ever make that mistake.
Oh, yes! That's a much better example, thanks.
Non-native speakers tend to make mistakes with "its" vs "it's" because they learn that in English the rule for when to after a "subject" put an apostrophe followed by an "s" is when you're talking about something that subject has, but this case is an exception to that rule since " it " followed " 's " stands for " it is " whilst talking about something that " it " has is written " its ".
I mean, you can memorize there's an exception to the rule for this case, but if you're not paying enough attention when writting it's easy to make a mistake by unthinkingly following the rule as usual even though in this case it doesn't apply, and even if you re-read the text to check if it's alright, it's easy to miss it because you kinda have the right meaning in your mind so you read what you meant to write rather than what you wrote plus they're both valid forms so neither stands out as a spelling mistake even when misused.
Also a lot of folks just won't bother with' especially on mobile
Hear me out:
Id rather see mistakes like this than
- three
- sus
- bullets
And not just bullets, but also other obvious signs of AI slop — emdash included.
Would you like me to-
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I don't know, but a lot of people in this thread seem to suggest that it's them not being a native speaker that's the problem.
In my experience it's actually the opposite, so many native speakers mess up things like your/you're, it's insane. Well, any time something is off about the English grammar on the internet, we blame the American education system.
Sometimes it's funny, though. Like "for all intensive purposes".
The thing is, it's not a "bone apple tea" moment, having only heard it vs reading. It's a single word, and a fairly simple thing to memorize the difference between "fail/forget" and "release/relaxed/wobbly", but... people are generally pretty stupid, and the truth is scary, so here we are. 🥲
I'm gonna loose my mind over this!
idk I always have a lil trouble with it and have to do a double take when writing it. it's just so ingrained that oo makes the u sound so theoretically lose should be spelled loose because lose should sound like lowe's. that might just be me doe
If it's spelled loose, then we could end up with another Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo
or Police police Police police police police Police police.
If lose should be spelled like loose, then how should the word loose be spelled?
Looose.
😂
Why, loosely, of course.
my gut reaction was to invent another word, but I think the better answer would be to also spell it loose so you have yet another lead lead situation >:D
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I have come around to accept my occasional misspellings, incorrect verb forms, not really knowing with certainty when to use "in" or "on" and even mangled or mixed expressions whenever I write something in English (which is not my native language) as a way to show that the text was not written by AI.
PS: My personal top English-language mistake for a number of years was "later" vs "latter" - I genuinely thought that when I saw the word "latter" written, that was a spelling mistake and one time I even "corrected" a native English speaker on it (who should've pointed out my mistake, which I would've gladly accepted since I would rather be corrected than keep on making such a dumb mistake - as I did for a few more years - but this person was very middle class English).
As a non native speaker: where is the difference?
If a bolt is loose you might lose it.
Lose, with only one 'o':
Verb. To stop having something you had before, with a negative connotation. To not have success at game or competition.
Dictionary entry: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/lose
Loose, with two 'o's:
Adjective. It can mean the oposite of either "tight", "attached" or "controlled". It can also be a verb, and in that case it means something similar to "let loose".
Dictionary entry: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/loose
Oh, it sure as hell was.
People saying "women" while meaning "woman" make my eye twitch too
It's probably a loost course.
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Aside from the many issues with the spelling and grammar, nobody is really focusing on the actual point of this post.
The fact is that there are millions of gamers (well, bots, too) that pre-ordered this game before ever seeing any gameplay footage.
Far too many will buy the deluxe edition and R* will make so much money that they'll probably piss themselves from laughing at posts like this.
Gamers, especially sports game enthusiasts, are always ready to bend over and lube up for the publishers.
The launch of GTA 6 will reinforce the anti-consumerist behavior of most triple-A studios.
Didn't Marx say everything would become gambling?
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The person that wrote that used AI and didn't bother reading it afterwards and/or english isn't their forte.
I read an article by a teacher the other day, who begrudgingly rejoiced a little bit whenever she found a spelling error in a student's work. Because that meant it at least wasn't written by AI.
It's tricky, isn't it? Will the amount of people who actually know how to spell decrease significantly because of AI?
It's already decreasing, those that grow up with AI assistants won't know what writing is because all they will know is speak to the AI and it will write it for you until eventually the AI is gone (malfunction that no one can repair or it just fucks off because it doesn't want to deal with idiots anymore) and we are left with something akin to Neanderthals.
I've had this feeling for years seeing how people barely know how to use a pen, slowly writing in block letters. This is the evolution of that.
Of course they use AI to write for them, they were never taught to write!
i dont see why we wont get rdr3 on this new engine. i dont expect it soon, but i think its plausable.
What's going on on that graph? 52 per ¢?
It's from a prediction market site (which is just gambling in a trenchcoat and Groucho Marx glasses) where you buy shares in the prediction of an outcome. That's the price for a share in "Yes".
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