There is no such word as "loosing"
The word is LOSING.
Perhaps they are speaking of loosing money from the confines of their wallets? ;)
Was it me?Quote: AlanMendelsonThere is no such word as "loosing." Players are not "loosing" money from biased dice. Players are not "loosing" money from following bad strategies.
The word is LOSING.
Quote: waltomealThere is. As a verb, "loose" can mean to release
I immediately thought of archery in olden days, and orders like "loose the arrows".
Quote: WizardLooooooooooocy, I'm home.
Sorry Wiz.
It's: Luuuuuuuuuuuuuucy.
Quote: AlanMendelsonThere is no such word as "loosing." Players are not "loosing" money from biased dice. Players are not "loosing" money from following bad strategies.
The word is LOSING.
I was walking through my local casino, Seminole Hard Rock Tampa
A game caught my eye I had never seen before, Saigon 5 card poker.
The dealer at the empty table motioned me over.
I asked about the game, never saw it before.
Dealer offerred to teach me.
I asked If I can play for free to learn
Dealer said no.
I told dealer I cannot play for real money because dont know strategy and would loose money due to bad strategy :-)
Quote: AlanMendelsonThere is no such word as "loosing." Players are not "loosing" money from biased dice. Players are not "loosing" money from following bad strategies.
The word is LOSING.
I had to smile when I read this. This spelling error has been one of my pet peeves for a long time. It drive me crazy every time I see it... and I don't know why.
About 15 years ago I created the following webpage: http://www.edcollins.com/lose.htm
Quote: IbeatyouracesAnyone that has an issue with how someone else spells a word has some sort of internal issue. How a word is spelled is nothing more than someone's opinion.
I agree.
Lose
loose
who cares.
If you understand the communication, thats all that matters
If you have a problem, paste and copy to software with spell correction, correct then read.
Edit. Case in point. I just had to make 3 corrections!
Quote: terapinedI agree.
Lose
loose
who cares.
If you understand the communication, thats all that matters
If you have a problem, paste and copy to software with spell correction, correct then read.
Who cares?
A lot of people care. Many people consider spelling very important.
If someone turned in a résumé to me, with words that were spelled wrong, I almost surely wouldn't hire that person, especially if I had other qualified candidates who were also interested in the position I offered. There's no excuse for not taking the time to proofread a résumé, or to have someone else look it over for errors. Not doing so shows a lack of attention to detail. Why would I want to hire that person?
When I spell words wrong, I always hope someone will point my error out to me, so that I don't continue to spell the word wrong in the future. (Simple typos notwithstanding.)
Quote: EdCollinsWho cares?
A lot of people care. Many people consider spelling very important.
If someone turned in a résumé to me, with words that were spelled wrong, I almost surely wouldn't hire that person, especially if I had other qualified candidates who were also interested in the position I offered. There's no excuse for not taking the time to proofread a résumé, or to have someone else look it over for errors. Not doing so shows a lack of attention to detail. Why would I want to hire that person?
When I spell words wrong, I always hope someone will point my error out to me, so that I don't continue to spell the word wrong in the future. (Simple typos notwithstanding.)
Sure in a professional setting, I agree. This here, is "absotively" not that setting.
Quote: EdCollinsWho cares?
A lot of people care. Many people consider spelling very important.
If someone turned in a résumé to me, with words that were spelled wrong, I almost surely wouldn't hire that person, especially if I had other qualified candidates who were also interested in the position I offered. There's no excuse for not taking the time to proofread a résumé, or to have someone else look it over for errors. Not doing so shows a lack of attention to detail. Why would I want to hire that person?
When I spell words wrong, I always hope someone will point my error out to me, so that I don't continue to spell the word wrong in the future. (Simple typos notwithstanding.)
You are comparing a message board to a resume.
Cmon, most are trying to type on tiny phones.
Whats next, complete correctly spelled words in texts
Lol
For a fellow Ed, laughing out loud :-)
Quote: terapinedYou are comparing a message board to a resume.
Cmon, most are trying to type on tiny phones.
Whats next, complete correctly spelled words in texts
Lol
For a fellow Ed, laughing out loud :-)
Well, you said "if you understand the communication, that's all that matters."
You didn't specify that was for just for texts and message boards, although maybe that was implied.
Quote: EdCollinsWho cares?
A lot of people care. Many people consider spelling very important.
Very important. I don't care if it's "just a text". If you're addressing me, don't be an idiot. I can handle very light text-speak, like using "cuz" instead of "because" or "tho" instead of "though". I can also handle, or even enjoy, when poor English is used creatively to enhance a sentence. Since it's hard to convey emotion using written word, I will often use the common tongue to convey that I've undone the top button, so to speak, and am being more casual. Use of fragments like "ain't gonna", for example.
I try to not be a jerk about it, but it does drive me nuts.
Even Alan saying "loosing is not a word" bothers me. When I go sailing, I loose the sails. When I'm actively doing it, I am loosing them. I know exactly what he means (people who "loose" money at the casino ><), but just the fact that his sentence is wrong makes my brain hurt. The fact that I can still understand it does not make it OK for me.
If Axel is any indication, it takes about 7,000 posts before I can just accept it and stop having conniptions over it =p
years ago. People spell phonically because they haven't
read a book since High School, if then.
Quote: AlanMendelsonThere is no such word as "loosing."
That's when I turn a comfy chair over and shake the change out from the cushion.
Why if I was "losing" the change, I wouldn't find it afterwards.
Quote: EdCollinsWho cares?
A lot of people care. Many people consider spelling very important.
If someone turned in a résumé to me, with words that were spelled wrong, I almost surely wouldn't hire that person, especially if I had other qualified candidates who were also interested in the position I offered. There's no excuse for not taking the time to proofread a résumé, or to have someone else look it over for errors. Not doing so shows a lack of attention to detail. Why would I want to hire that person?
When I spell words wrong, I always hope someone will point my error out to me, so that I don't continue to spell the word wrong in the future. (Simple typos notwithstanding.)
This is a recreational online forum. Not a resume or an academic paper.
I don't see how that is a fair equivalency.
When you are hanging out with your friends do you use perfect grammar? When you are Facebook messaging do you use perfect grammar? I am guessing not.
You can't equate a professional setting with recreational settings. Even less so on an anonymous online site...
Quote: EdCollinsWho cares?
A lot of people care. Many people consider spelling very important.
If someone turned in a résumé to me, with words that were spelled wrong, I almost surely wouldn't hire that person
It's 'Resumé' not 'Résumé'.
$;o)
Quote: OnceDearIt's 'Resumé' not 'Résumé'.
No wonder nobody would hire me out of college, I didn't put any accents in the word resume -- and still don't.
What is even more annoying is trying to impress people with Latin and calling it a Curriculum Vitae.
Quote: WizardNo wonder nobody would hire me out of college, I didn't put any accents in the word resume -- and still don't.
What is even more annoying is trying to impress people with Latin and calling it a Curriculum Vitae.
We Brit's tend to simply use C.V.
Resume, résumé or resumé seems more popular in the US. It's seldom used in that context in the UK.
Who should idiots address in order to have their grievances heard?Quote: Face... If you're addressing me, don't be an idiot.
Quote: petroglyphWho should idiots address in order to have their grievances heard?
Their families right before the feats of strength
Quote: OnceDearIt's 'Resumé' not 'Résumé'.
$;o)
Ha ha. Nice try. According to Wikipedia, résumé is indeed correct, less frequently spelled resume or resumé.
I also give you this link: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/719/1/
Quote: KerkebetWiners are loosers. It's that simple.
And on my first pass, I actually parsed that as 'whiners are losers'...
Quote: petroglyphWho should idiots address in order to have their grievances heard?
This above line should be part of the forum rules FAQ. (if we even have a FAQ. If not, should we ever have one.)
Quote: petroglyphWho should idiots address in order to have their grievances heard?
Lol still me. It's more of a request than a demand.
I think it's just the lack of desire to improve. No one's born smart. Everyone makes mistakes. But how can you do something that you know is incorrect, and just be fine with it? At its core, that's what I think bugs me the most.
The level of my anger is likely a result of projection.
Quote: FaceBut how can you do something that you know is incorrect, and just be fine with it?
This.
Quote: FaceBut how can you do something that you know is incorrect, and just be fine with it?
I ask that same question when people go to KFC knowing there is a Popeye's just a little further down the road.
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Quote: FaceNo one's born smart. Everyone makes mistakes. But how can you do something that you know is incorrect, and just be fine with it?
I've been waiting for liberals to answer this exact question.
Would this also hold true, if lets say someone was using speed count?Quote: FaceLol still me. It's more of a request than a demand.
I think it's just the lack of desire to improve. No one's born smart. Everyone makes mistakes. But how can you do something that you know is incorrect, and just be fine with it? At its core, that's what I think bugs me the most.
The level of my anger is likely a result of projection.
I'd rather spell loosely and spell lose wrong, but try not to lose more on gambling than I actually win. This is a gaming forum after all.
I have never meet or been around anyone who disliked me because of my poor writing skills.
Fortunately if you want to spell and punctuate things properly you can easily figure out a way(there's an app for that) some things are not as easy.
Quote: AxelWolfWould this also hold true, if lets say someone was using speed count?
Apples and oranges. People play for different reasons. While it is generally accepted, especially here, to play with as much an advantage as possible, many could give a rip about the math. If I enjoyed the ups and downs of BJ and the casino atmosphere and it was somewhere that I went to cut loose and have a good time, any and all forms of counting would be "wrong". It turns it into work and a job.
Ace clearly gambles for enjoyment as opposed to compensation. For him, the correct play is whatever makes him happiest. English is much more black and white. You can claim that your "mistakes" are fun to you. But just as someone like you cringes at SC, I cringe at you're grammer mistakes.
Quote: Axel
I have never meet or been around anyone who disliked me because of my poor writing skills.
Just so we're absolutely clear, it has nothing to do with whether I like you or not. Especially my age and younger, which most all of my peers are, spelling and grammar skills are non existent. In the era of text speak and auto correction, language skills have gone the way of the grey wolf; present, outside effort to establish, but exceedingly rare. If I disliked everyone who writes like trash, I wouldn't have the sunny disposition that I do =)
It just drives me nuts. Like I said, it's probably projection.
Quote: FaceBut how can you do something that you know is incorrect, and just be fine with it? At its core, that's what I think bugs me the most.
See, and I wonder why people play sports where you get concussions to the head. For free.
Just goes to prove, life is a mystery.
: )
I probably drives people nuts AOS plays SC instead of a better counting method.Quote: Face
It just drives me nuts. Like I said, it's probably projection.
He could have the same entertainment but with thousands of extra dollars in his pocket Money = fun, that's why people gamble
It's drives him nuts when someone hits 15 vs 5 and takes the dealers bust card.
Math is more black and white IMO It's more important as well. U can fudg a lot on gramar but stil hav the saame eggzact outcome.
Good luck with that when gambling.
You're playin' so cool
Obeyin' every rule
But dig way down in your heart
You're burnin', yearnin' for some
Somebody to tell you
That life ain't passing you by
I'm trying to tell you
It will if you don't even try
You can fly if you'd only cut lose
Footlose, kick off your Sunday shoes
Ooh-ee, Marie, shake it, shake it for me
Whoa, Milo, come on, come on let's go
Loose your blues, everybody cut footlose
;)
Quote: KeeneoneThis thread reminded me of a great Kenny Loggins song...Here is some of it (editing mine):
You're playin' so cool
Obeyin' every rule
But dig way down in your heart
You're burnin', yearnin' for some
Somebody to tell you
That life ain't passing you by
I'm trying to tell you
It will if you don't even try
You can fly if you'd only cut lose
Footlose, kick off your Sunday shoes
Ooh-ee, Marie, shake it, shake it for me
Whoa, Milo, come on, come on let's go
Loose your blues, everybody cut footlose
;)
(Shudders)
Quote: rxwineSee, and I wonder why people play sports where you get concussions to the head. For free.
Team up with rudeboyoi to abolish the law so I can randomly smash people in public whenever I feel like it and I'll quit playing hockey tomorrow =)
Quote: AxelWolfI probably drives people nuts AOS plays SC instead of a better counting method.
He could have the same entertainment but with thousands of extra dollars in his pocket Money = fun, that's why people gamble
See? You get it. Ace's play doesn't affect them. It probably helps, since he's one less sharp making casinos sweat and taking from their bottom line. He's one less guy competing for a finite resource, which they themselves are in the business of.
But it still bugs them, dunnit?
Quote: AxelMath is more black and white IMO It's more important as well. U can fudg a lot on gramar but stil hav the saame eggzact outcome.
Math isn't more black and white, it is black and white. But I wasn't talking math, I was talking gambling. And plenty do it for recreation. A good day of gambling for me, for example, is $100 buy in at Pai Gow playing however the hell I want. If an hour later I still have at least $80 and 3 or 4 free beers in me, I'm on top of the world. That's bad math. But it's great gambling.
And you may think spelling and grammar have no affect, but I can guarantee you they do. It's no different than wearing pajama bottoms when you go grocery shopping. Hell, I do it. I don't give a s#$%. But I'm not foolish enough to think I'm not being judged. And should I need something from or run into one of these people down the line, my pj wearing habits will affect my life, likely negatively.
Writing like a toddler is the literary equivalent of People of Walmart.
