Quote from: jbreher on September 19, 2020, 05:58:51 AM

Quote from: nullius on September 18, 2020, 12:48:17 AM

Quote from: jbreher (personal text)

lose: unfind ... loose: untight

*Given the pervasivity of that particular misuse, I sometimes worry that the entire innerwebs is trolling me.

Your desire to lose the mob is trolled by Twitters desire to loose the mob.

But what will neomaniacal descriptivist zealots soon say about you? jbreher, that old pedant! They dont understand that lose usage causes words too loose their meanings. Its so simple for them to understand: Language evolves.

* nullius drags their fingernails across the chalkboard, for to effect extra effect on your affect.

Quote from: jbreher on September 19, 2020, 05:58:51 AM

Quote from: nullius on September 17, 2020, 07:07:37 PM

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You skipped over the most salient point. You have no fckin clue.

Out of curioſity, I ſearched for a fucking clue. Well, to my ſatisfaction, at leaſt my habit of reading old books has gifted me with ſpecial inſight: I know the difference between fucking and ſucking.

Medial S: It ſucks with ill-trained OCR!