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I can't be the only one who knows this right?  How do you "LOOSE" bitcoins?  Like shake some kind of change purse and watch em jiggle?

This has been a public service announcement by ksteve96.

I'm SlidingHorn, and I approve this message. ;D

I love reading posts from people who claim to be smart, educated, experienced, etc.  Then type LOOSE instead of LOSE.   ;)

Great thread.  I will direct people here when they make this mistake.

I don't disagree with you, but to be fair, there are a lot of people here who aren't native English speakers.

because they aren't really lost, just loose.  ask Mark Karpeles  ;D

Ok, so I'm not the only one who thinks this is funny, cool :)
Anyone using English as a second language gets a pass of course.

Not a native speaker here... Correct me if I'm wrong: loose is like "loose end" and lose is like "I lose all the time", right?

Yep, that's pretty much it AFAIK.

lol I started a thread about this too a few months ago. I swear, I see this mistake so often in the Bitcoin community, I'm starting to wonder if the spelling of "lose" has been officially changed since I left school?

Back in my day, lose/loose was essential criteria for passing 2nd grade spelling. They don't even sound the same, which makes the prevalence even more baffling to me.

edit: and you can't blame this on non-native speakers. they seem to get it right, but it's the mouth breathers on here who were born in the US or other English speaking countries that seem to screw it up all the time.

well i just "LOOSE"  :D  few BTC, about 20$ in casino this week but that's ok though !!

My condolences :) Go get dat casino!

Another common mistake is between there/their.

Actually, English has quite a few places that can trip up even a native speaker if they fell asleep in English class. And sad to say, I often judge people on their grammar & spelling. If someone doesn't have fluently literate English, it's hard for me to take them seriously.

A fault on my part, of course. Particularly as I only speak English, and many people aren't native speakers of English. Sometimes it's not so obvious that English is their second language, and I get on my high horse and presume that their IQ isn't quite there.

I do tend to have more respect for those who are using English non-natively... that is, if I realize it.

The question is - can you politely correct someone's spelling without being thought of as a troll?

I never do... I don't think that there is a polite way to do it. And if I understood the poster, what does it matter?

At least, that's what I think...

Ha, I would have resurrected that if I found it.  I agree that non-native English speakers get it right, they probably double check better.




I don't think there is either, so I haven't and won't call out anyone specifically. 

Actually, I may have figured out why this particular misspelling peeves me so much.  Some ugly tool used "loose" all the time on a local racing forum we all used, but I just thought it was weird back then.  he decided to try to steal my girlfriend (didn't happen) by getting close to me and then crying in front of her a lot, and other really lame things like that.  I may be projecting my desire to rip the face off this guy (who is the 1st person I ever saw do that) on all subsequent people making this mistake

I have noticed this as well :D Confuses me every now and then..

You know what really chaps my arsehole? Hypocritical grammar Nazis.


 ;)

you can lose loose bitcoins

Damn you got me...not even gonna go back and fix it.  :)

At least I got it right the second time in the post, quick learning curve I guess. 

I think loose / lose is an easy mistake to make. It's definitely forgivable among grammar crimes lol.

Lots of people are simply not good enough at english or care enough to correct their mistakes.
With that said, it sure is annoying to read.

Lol why not  ;D....... nah I won't that's OK, it's a provably fair casino plus I always follow the golden rule and stick with it 'never risk what you can't afford to lose'  ;)

I can get people confusing your and you're because they sound alike when spoken, along with their/there/they're, but lose and loose don't even sound alike. and the meanings are completely different. so how is it easy to confuse. I just don't get it, man.

and I swear this wasn't a widespread problem until a few years ago. I used to rarely notice it online. and then, maybe four or five years ago, it seems that everyone agreed to start screwing it up. is it something in the water? some kind of chemical children were exposed to in the immediate years preceding/following Y2K?

I think it's called the youth of today that expect spell checks to correct everything for them ( note that it won't notice if you type loose instead of lose as it's not technically spelled wrong ) / the education system failing in the world's former leading countries.

There is often confusion over the words loose and lose. This is due to the lack of consistency in pronouncing words that end oose and ose.
Loose means not tight or free from constraint.
To lose means to fail to: (1) keep (2) win or (3) make money.

the people who frequently makes this mistakes makes my grammar nazi senses tingling...

is it really hard to remember how to use words like "your" and "you're".
and "lose" and "loose" are way more different it's easy to tell how you would you it in a sentence..

sometimes you have to misspell things so you don't feel like THE DEVIL

I think that the people spelling it with oose are spelling phonetically, they assume the long "o" needs to be spelled longer, so to speak.  It's not a lack of understanding of the meaning.  Same reason I keep seeing "proove" lately.

I don't have any problem with how a non-native speaker writes, at least they are trying.  But for native speakers, this is inexcusable as I wouldn't have passed 6th grade spelling like that.

Loose and proove all over the place here, whats next?

All this is gonna put me in an early TOOMB

Haha, it's not that annoying though is it? Seems like a mild case of OCD in your case.

it's a typo :D

Dude you think that's bad, check out some of randomlove's posts. A particularly memorable one was "neivity" which he then tried to blame on "typing on his mobile." Right, I can totally see how that could happen.

I guess there's a difference between a typo and simply not knowing the difference between the two.

I found myself making that mistake recently but corrected it.  then it it got me thinking how many times I did that without noticing. 

And every time you did a grammar nazi somewhere in the world almost ripped his eyes out in sheer frustration.

I get annoyed when people belittle each other and correct every single tiny mistake, or when they try to use the other person's (minor) errors as an entire basis for a rebuttal of their points. However, when your entire post looks like a 3-year-old on peyote wrote it, then you have a problem and cannot expect to be taken seriously.

Imagine having it tattooed :D

http://www.teamjimmyjoe.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Too-loose.jpg

 ;D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3y0CD2CoCs

They didn't hold them tight enough and they loose them lol

If no one ever corrects it, people view it as correct, use it themselves, and it spreads.

Grammar/Spelling Nazi, here. It makes me want to cry so much when I see errors like this. You have no idea.  :(

Not all people are native english speakers. Just saying...

No, but most people have gone to school for at least 9 years, and should know the difference. :)

We should also do an explanation of such important grammatical concepts as:

1.) The semicolon
2.) Run-on sentences (also know as commas and periods are your friends!)
3.) The paragraph (closely related to the issues presented by #2 above!)

I like posts with high information density.

If you're taking the trouble to post then clearly you want readers.

Walls of text, no matter how good the grammar, are perceived as "work" by many.

For maximum mind penetration, posts should be crafted like a high dollar infomercial.

Posts written with this method are very good for non native English speakers.

Apologies if I'm loosing track of the thread. :P

lots of ponzi schme in market place in this forum to lose your bitcoins from your wallet

I'm questioning your first comma.

I'm not an expert, it just seems that when reading/speaking it, the words "Nazi" and "here" need to be rolled together without pause.

Well English is not my native, but I know that there is a huge difference between lose and loose.

And I already see people above are posting some loose/lose word games :P
And just a though came through my mind:

You can be too loose and lose your BTC

And maybe we can create a definition of "To Loose Bitcoins"

To Loose Bitcoin means:
http://www.marcinkozbial.host56.com/loose.png

I'm sorry I don't get it, Loosing Bitcoin means what? A guy with a bitcoin cutout on his face sitting in a staircase?

Sounds good to me!

Oh sorry :) I told English isn't my native.
I meant "To Loose Bitcoin" :)

Just edited in a post above.
:) Nice one.

Ah alright that's better. :)

I'm gonna be honest here I still don't get the joke with the picture. 'To Loose Bitcoins' ?

Oh and I forgot, another one that drives me crazy is when people write "please advice" in an email.

What when who why would someone write "please advice"? In what context?

I'm not complaining about them using the phrase, but rather that they stupidly write ADVICE instead of ADVISE. It has become so common I think some people think this is correct, ie it may not even be a type-o in many cases.

It's very commonly in business emails. For example: "We still have not received the updated software that was due on April 10th. Please advise.." or "We cannot complete the schedule until we receive your availability, please advise" etc. (Only the dumbasses write please 'advice.')

How do you all feel about mistakes by intent?

Like hodl is "the thing" to say nowadays instead of hold?

I enjoy coding and the last thing I would want is keywords changing syntax every few months.

But this is happening with written language.

Please advice. :D

Hodl is funny and just a joke. It's like bitcointalk's own meme. I guess it's similar to 4chan's sauce vs source and other such purposely done misspellings that have entered into their own respective lexicons.

Per se vs per say/ persay is done a lot too.

Like already posted above this one -   loose and hodl is not the same case.

But :) perhaps loose will became anothe Bitcointalk meme.

I do not mind, I am not English native speaking so I haven't got any grammar mania or something like that :P

Ah. Well I know the difference between advice and advise, I just didn't understand what the error you were referring to was just from "please advice". :)

Advise, if I remember correctly, is an adverb. It should be used like "Please advise me." It has become acceptable to leave off the object if it is obvious from context (in this case obviously you mean please advise ME.)

The hold thing annoys me too but it is obvious that it's an intentional error.

Another annoying thing is everyone saying butthurt every 20 seconds on the board. "OMG stop being butthurt, oh now you're butthurt, all the butthurt xyzcoin miners... etc. It was funny like the first... 2... times. Maybe. Now it's just annoying and every 12-yr-old on the forum reveals that they are ... well 12 years old, by throwing it around in every other post.

Fun fact, about the word advice ( you're correct about the use of advise ) but a common mistake is also people talking about "an advice", which technically is wrong as it should be "a piece of advice", or something alike. :)

Oh man I hate that one to. "The guys from the server team gave me an advice" uhhh no they didn't bro. They really didn't. They may have given you advice, or an idea, but they did not give you "an advice."

Another annoying one "... can/will/may/going to/etc + speak to that"

This is another business thing, I feel like lately in every meeting, presentation, and conference call, there are always at least three people who say "I can speak to that" or "Okay let's let John speak to the capacity issues we have been having." Right. He should go speak to the capacity issues. Because that makes sense.

(what they really mean is basically "to talk about/discuss.")

Oh yes, oh yes. Things are getting so sloppy when it comes to language nowadays, and it's mainly because of the internet, languages being mixed and integrated with each other etc. In my own country there are on a daily basis several examples of spelling and grammar errors in newspapers, commercials, movie subtitles, even in the websites of the leading political parties in the country. It's a shame.
Making mistakes in your second language is one thing, but your mother tongue? That's just laziness!

It also doesn't help that teachers don't give two shits anymore, they're more worried about getting their salaries jacked up via unions, and even the ones who do give two shits are powerless because parents treat their kids like demi-gods and believe they can do no wrong.

Haha exactly. And that's the reason I'll slap my own kids.

Naa, but seriously tho, kids need to be raised knowing they're not always right. Can't defend them "OH MY GOD, DID YOU GET AN F ON YOUR TEST? IT MUST BE THE TEACHER'S FAULT, YOU'RE MY LITTLE GENIUS" and run to the school and shout at the people in charge.
Seems to happen too much nowadays.

We've gone way too far into the whole "everyone is special, you can do anything, my child is infallible" etc etc stage. Then we wonder why they turn out to be a bunch of rude, self-entitled fucking assholes that don't want to work, can't support themselves, and blame everyone else but themselves when anything goes wrong.

Definitely is a word that people can never seem to spell.

Luckily this forum has a built in spell correct! :D
But it's a hard word for some reason.

Built in spell check? Definitely is a word many people tend to fuck up colossally and in many ways. Defiantly, definately, definatly etc.

A few regular grammatical things that make me cringe every time I see them used:

- Loose instead of Lose
- Lagg instead of Lag
- Your instead of You're
- many more I can't think of off the top of my head.

My most hated reply to this is:

"Lol it's the internet, who cares?" like somehow typing words on the internet invalidates the use of grammar or spelling.

I surprisingly don't see a lot of people make that mistake.

Lol it's the internet, who cares?  ;D

How about the difference between its and it's? ;D

A lot of people get that wrong.

Another one that drives me insane is when people make add an 's' onto words where it does not belong. I forget what the technical term for this is, but for example "I found some informations about..." I see that one on forums fairly often.

Also, they're, their, there

How to remember:

They're --> Simply short for they are.

Their --> Remember an heir receives money, their money.

There --> A location, remember here is like there.

Another good one is when there are blatant errors in a job posting. Way to present yourself well... if you don't take yourself seriously, how do you expect a prospective employee to do so? A friend of mine was asking me for advice about applying to a job and I just couldn't get over how many issues there were in the posting, and this was a large company not like some tiny startup.

I don't know whether it's already been mentioned but 'whether', 'wether' and 'weather' get mixed up a lot. I sometimes slip up on the first two.

Apparently a 'wether' is a castrated sheep haha.

http://www.grammar-monster.com/easily_confused/weather_whether_wether.htm

loose/lose mix ups are a result of people relying on spell check when writing and being only semi-literate to begin with. same goes for the their/there/they're mistakes. go read a book kids, you're making "Idiocracy" look like a work of non-fiction.

Az an Amrican nativ speeker ' all I can say is I duno????

Me loosted mah coans!!! Gib i fre coans!

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Average quality post it seems.  ::)

I believe the answer to that question is no. I have tried in the past and failed many times. I am a grammar nazi as well, but NO! I cant correct people's grammar!

A few days back, I suggested this feature: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=627768.0


Honestly, I think it's a great idea to implement into the new forum software.

Wait for it...

Wait for it...

 Holy shit! Thats a great idea! Why wasn't I made aware of that earlier!?! Is there any progress being made on it, such as development?

When the new forum software comes out, I'm fairly sure this will be part of it. So far, everyone seems to support the stackexchange method of doing things (where the OP chooses the modified text or not).

Do you know when the new forum software is coming out? If so I hope it is implemented soon so I don't have a mental breakdown from reading these damn posts xD

It's been said, "dont be a dick." :p

I think it's based on the context. If they accidentally missed an apostrophe and used "its" instead of "it's," mayyyyybe you should just let it slide.

But if thery're like mahsing on a kedsyp[board it's probably fine to correct them even if they get pissy

Or of course you can tell the drunk typers to go be drunk elsewhere.. this occurred on a thread I was posting in earlier... It was quite hilarious.