Pet Peeves: Loose Instead of Lose
I have a long list of pet peeves, some that bug me more than others. One that I see popping up more and more is that people spell lose with two o‘s. Lately, I’ve taken to passing over even potentially interesting articles that have this misspelling, such as this recent one: “How inventors and entrepreneurs loose touch with reality.”
Call me shallow, but I prefer a firm touch (not a “loose” one). This article also talks about “loose perspective.” I suppose that’s in contrast to a tight one? “When you loose perspective you begin to loose your objectivity.” Well, whatever that means, it sounds bad.
Once, my Mandrake Linux box warned me to be careful about performing a certain operation. Apparently I could “loose data.” Oh no! I thought. We can’t have all that loose data floating around! How would we ever get it back in the computer? It would be like stuffing toothpaste back into the tube.
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