Quote from: kireinaha on March 06, 2014, 10:27:10 AM

lol I started a thread about this too a few months ago. I swear, I see this mistake so often in the Bitcoin community, I'm starting to wonder if the spelling of "lose" has been officially changed since I left school?

Back in my day, lose/loose was essential criteria for passing 2nd grade spelling. They don't even sound the same, which makes the prevalence even more baffling to me.

edit: and you can't blame this on non-native speakers. they seem to get it right, but it's the mouth breathers on here who were born in the US or other English speaking countries that seem to screw it up all the time.

Ha, I would have resurrected that if I found it. I agree that non-native English speakers get it right, they probably double check better.

Quote from: Khadaji on March 06, 2014, 11:21:59 PM

Quote from: Vod on March 06, 2014, 10:10:16 PM

The question is - can you politely correct someone's spelling without being thought of as a troll?

I never do... I don't think that there is a polite way to do it. And if I understood the poster, what does it matter?

At least, that's what I think...

I don't think there is either, so I haven't and won't call out anyone specifically.

Actually, I may have figured out why this particular misspelling peeves me so much. Some ugly tool used "loose" all the time on a local racing forum we all used, but I just thought it was weird back then. he decided to try to steal my girlfriend (didn't happen) by getting close to me and then crying in front of her a lot, and other really lame things like that. I may be projecting my desire to rip the face off this guy (who is the 1st person I ever saw do that) on all subsequent people making this mistake