I was actually corrected on this not too long ago, and I am happy to report that I now remember the correct spelling!

This will literally be the new literally, I guess.

Spelling conventions have taken quite a hit in the age of automated subtitles. We're devolving to the 1600s where this was more vibe based. I think there is also an element of wanting to show human frailty in content so no one suspects you of pushing slop.

No, this dipshittery had been going on far longer than that.

You loost me on this one.

Same people that think you can target fat.

I am totally okay with this tbh, it's one of the words that I struggled with when I learned English in school. It makes no sense that lose and loose sound the same.

*lawst

You ready to take on accept vs. except now?

languages are fluid and can evolve

Breaking news: people on TikTok are illiterate; water is wet; sky is blue

Not sure if you’re joking or completely unaware that they don’t actually sound the same…

"Nay, þis dipschytterye hadde ben goynge onne farr lenger þan þat."

They don't. One is lose (loo-zz), the other is loose (loo-ss).

I spell lose as lose :3

When I was learning english I used to confuse the spelling though, cause the word lose to me sounds like the same sound as the double o in other words :3. Though once I got used to the weird english spelling rules I fixed that problem. Now if only I could remember which way round desert and dessert are..

I'd wager they sound the same to most non-native speakers in a casual conversation.

Now if only I could remember which way round desert and dessert are..

Handy memory trick on that one, the one you want more of has more S's in it.

Yeah, just like news and noose sound the same /s

Nothing has recently changed about the way people use the word literally. The figurative use of literally has been used in famous works by the likes of Dickins, Twain and at least one of the Bronte sisters, and was first noted in an English dictionary in 1769 - people have literally been using it that way for at least 250 years.

Native English speaker here, lose/loose are tough ones.

Looking at both words I could see how either one could be pronounced either way.

Thanks French (I suspect)!

It's useful to keep in mind that written words are merely an attempt to record sounds, and when these spellings occurred these words were very likely pronounced much differently than today.

Guess what?

All of Italian sounds the same to me, a non-native speaker.

You can.

But with diet.

As my bodybuilder friends would say - abs are made in the kitchen (for them anyway, rest of us fatties just get less fat in the kitchen).

Haha yeah totally /s

It's changed massively in recent decades.

Just because it had been used occasionally in the past is irrelevant (notably in metaphors or hyperbole). If anything, those literary uses strengthen the denotaton of the word.

1530s, "in a literal sense, according to the exact meaning of the word or words used," from literal + -ly

The dictionary (OED) is built around common usage and clearly shows common usage for a long time.

Just because illiterate Kardashians use it incorrectly doesn't mean the rest of us should.

I loosed it by losing 150 pounds. It's a biological bummer that one can literally deflate themselves and things don't re-tighten.

Yes but that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. They are two different words used to explain two different concepts. Just spell them and articulate yourself correctly. New generations may create modern words to represent modern concepts, but even those need to be spelled correctly to be correctly understood. If teachers adopted your opinion, none of us would have generalised communication (language), and therefore none of us would be able to understand eachother. Misspelling words misrepresents ideas. Nobody spells fart instead of cart and expects you to understand. I agree with the statement but your understanding needs more nuance.

Now if only I could remember which way round desert and dessert are..

My favorite deSSert is Strawberry Shortcake.

Neither word is of french origin, im pretty sure :3

Anywho, yeah I know a large part of why english spelling is the way that it is is because of things like the great vowel shift, which came after the spelling standardizations, as well as the mix of germanic, latin, and french (norman) influences all coming with their own spelling rules (as well as one off words borrowing spellings from other languages like spanish), but as someone coming from a language with pretty consistent spelling where loan words are adapted phonetically, the whole mess of having to know the origin of the word to even begin to vaguely grasp at the spelling was an adjustment lol.

I mean, the weirdest spelling related quirk in my native language is that we have letters referred to as "nasal letters" which are not in any way pronounced nasally hah :3 compared to english, it's a walk in the park

I am definitely one of those who makes typos and gets mad about this but - the internet needs to get more pedantic about spelling and grammar mistakes again.

Spelling reform (the natural way) is spooky

I've been following this English teacher on Instagram, who has had every attempt at getting kids to read thwarted by the school admins, who don't want anything 'woke' or 'political' or too challenging in any way. Which left this teacher with an empty library by the time the admin was done.

So it's not the kids' fault, it's not social media's fault, it's not even the teacher's fault. It's pearl clutching, conservative, anti 'woke', horse dewormer enjoying, piss drinkers that want these kids to stay stupid and unquestioning, and to have the reading ability of 5th graders.

I guess that if you put a bunch of religious fruitcakes that think science and education are woke devil magic in charge of things, you're going to end up with poorly educated children. Who would've thought?

The bigger bummer is your fat cells don't actually go away. They just shrink, so it's easy to get fat again.

The dictionary is infamously slow to change based on common use.

*LAOUGHWPFST

You are wrong.

Getting upset at people using literally in a figurative manner is popular these days, but it isn't based on an actual change in usage. There are actually dozens of other words used euphemistically as intensifiers in the same way ('totally', 'absolutely', 'fantastic', 'amazing'), but no one seems to mind for some reason.

I lost it by trying to press play too many times on screenshots of videos

How about affect and effect?

Everyone's throwing out weird mnemonic with alliterative desserts... But it's just "stressed" backwards.

If you're stressed, you should have some desserts to calm down!

Beast Titan build.

How long before the slop adapts and starts inserting typos and such?

🤓 ackchyually...

Water is not wet. Water makes things wet.

Yes English is a complete train wreck of a language for multiple reasons, not just in terms of spelling and grammar, but every single aspect of the language. I do appreciate that it's mostly non-gendered, but that's just about the only win it has. English should have done what a few other languages did back around the 1800s and completely revamped how every single word is spelled to make it all uniform (and achieve a truly phonetic alphabet), but it's kind of too late for that now.

Only if it's a single molecule of water, which would make it water vapor, not water.

If water makes things wet, then it makes the other water wet too.

i miss when the internet was full of grammar nazis instead of actual nazis

Effect causes shit to happen and affect is the cause from shit happening

You're gonna want to reverse that.

As a non-binary person I do appreciate the ability to have non-gendered words in english :3 my native language has everything as male or female which is... Ugh

Also funny thing about the spelling reform - we had one here in like.. the 19th century, though it was not because our spelling had gotten vastly inconsistent or anything, the main thing that was changed was that a lot of sounds written with polish inspired digraphs (sz, cz etc.) were replaced by czech inspired š, č, ž etc.. and also the letter ł which was also a polish influence was removed.. which is fair, we didn't really have a use for it. We also still have the digraph ch :3

Either way, we used to often have things like old 18th or 17th century papers in our textbooks to read, and they were still perfectly readable with the old spelling if you knew those few changes, so it wasn't a major change, though I do think it was a good one

It would help if lose didn't have the double O "oo" sound so when people who rely on phonetics sound it out they avoid stumbling into the loose trap.

Water makes water wet. Checkmate, atheist.

Or in this case, devolve.

It does sound the same to me as a non-native speaker, but if i can spell it right and understand the difference, you can too. Because there's tougher language out there, like chinese, that you can say the exact same sounding word but mean different thing. As a chinese myself, that's how i learn the important of getting the word right.