Spelling 'loser' with two 'o's!

[stogie bear]

What a 'looser!'

I cringe whenever I see people who don't have a grasp of basic English words like this.

It's one thing to make a typographical error. It's even OK to be completely crap at spelling and not care!

But to be supposedly reasonably educated and STILL get words like this wrong is just insane...

(And it's OK to start a sentence with 'but'... erm, and 'and!')

[bigmick22]

I'm with you on this.

Kill 'em all!

[Naang Faa]

Worrava dun now?
x

[stogie bear]

...all this rubbish we see in our high streets & in the pound shop is waisting and polluting!

Grrrr! Here's another one that gets my goat! WAISTING?

Oh, and I've decided to become a greeno. My carbon footprint is a lot less since I quit making toast.

[Monkey]

As much as I also hate to see the English language being murdered it's something we cannot change.

It's part of the natural evolution of language, just imagine if language didn't 'progress' where we would be.

Ye woud be fpeaking and writing the fame as William Shakespeare ufed to doeth.

Ye gads!

[daveduke007]

(Monkey @ Feb. 28 2008,00:01) As much as I also hate to see the English language being murdered it's something we cannot change.

 "Yes" we can as its "Our" Language    

Kill the Bastard's

[stogie bear]

Spelling the word 'loser' with two 'o's is not an indication of the change and modernization of our native tongue. I'm all for updating the language and saying that something is 'bad' when we really mean that' it's good!

I'm not even really bothered by the odd mistakes that creep in to most of our daily online posts. My real problem is that outside of the whole language issue people are just dumber than they ever were and it's not a priority to even try to fix it.

'O' levels to hard? Well, lower the pass levels. Really having trouble even after that? Well, let's just call an end to the whole pass/fail system altogether!

[Monkey]

If we are talking about Johnny Foreigner screwing our mother tongue then yes but I was thinking of the illiterate teenage chavs.

Whatever changes are made to the education system the language will still evolve, and lets face it English is a bit slack with the rules at times;

Tough
Cough
Rough
Dough

It goes on and on...

[PigDogg]

The oooo is emphazied for effect when pronouncing loser. If the word loose (as in loose fitting clothing) did not exist, then lose would probably be spelled loose.

[alan1chef]

Maybe it should be spelled "looze". In any case, no excuse for bad english. It's the slang that I don't understand.

[strocube]

You know, if you like you can blame the French for English spelling being as fucked up as it is. If I remember correctly, about 30% of English vocabulary comes from the French forms of Latin words.
Just my to, too, two cents,
Cheers,
J

[andre459]

I halve a spelling checker,
It came with my pea see.
It plainly marks four my revue
Mistakes I dew knot sea.

Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait aweigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the era rite
Its rarely ever wrong.

I've scent this massage threw it,
And I'm shore your pleased too no
Its letter prefect in every weigh;
My checker tolled me sew.

[alan1chef]

[stogie bear]

Snigger!

[Looker]

As an non-English speaker who had to find his way to survive and communicate abroad, I'm obviously a grammar and spelling mistakes churner
I've the impression that LOOSER it's wrongly written and pronounced also because people hear it being said by Americans, mostly in movies, with an 'oooo' effect that sounds like Loooooser instead of a dry and short Loser, as it should be.
Also, the fact that it's pronounced with a U like in Loo, Waterloo, and so on can lead to this common mistake, I guess.
Also, Waist and Waste are quite similar in pronounciation, and easy to mix up. As well, many other words are in the English language.
Spelling and grammar mistakes are common for non-mother tongue speakers. You have just to be patient and waiting for some more years when English would have wiped out all other languages worldwide and will be the ONLY commonly spoken language on mother Earth