Something to think about

[akabryanhall]

I pay for the toll with loose change.
I may lose a quarter in the process.
I am losing my religion.

If you can figure out what the heck my point is, you get a high five.:xd:

 

[BrooksReef]

You don't give your religion your all (loose change). You lose yourself in the process (quarter). You are failing your religion?

 

[Speg]

Uhh....You don't like going through the toll booth labled (CHANGE PROVIDED) and you tend to try and use the loose change in your cup holders to give a correct amount...

Then, sometimes when you throw money out of the window at the toll collection cup, you may miss the rim and some ends up falling onto the street and since you're in rush hour, you just let the money sit there and you don't get out to get it.

You believe in saving pennies and thus, you're going against what your personal religion believes in.

*high-five*

 

[akabryanhall]

Lol you both get a high five, speg you get one up high AND down low for the toll booth story.
No the explanation is a little more mundane than that, just pointing out the difference between the word lose and word loose. If I see one more person write loosing, as in "I've been loosing fish to ich" I'm gonna loose it completely lol.
Loosening-to make loose "She was loosening her moral character in college."
Losing- it go bubye "She's losing her moral character completely."

I think it boils down to the fact I really need to pick my battles better.:wink:

 

[Paul_N]

LOL, I agree. You'll appreciate this then:

Their,There,They're is a huge pet peeve of mine. Just ask my kids...:xd:

 

[110reef]

And what ever happened to adverbs?

We used to say, "I walked slowly". Now we say, "I walked slow". Who decided to get rid of all of the "-lys"?

 

[Speg]

What about two, too, and to?

I've got the hang of they're, there, and their pretty early on....but one that I can't seem to grasp is effect vs affect.... any help? I need the "dummies" explination.

 

[110reef]

Two - quantity, as in I have two eyes

Too - also, as in I want to come, too.

To - location - As in go to the store.

Too - overly as in too many, too much, too green

Affect - verb, as in that call will affect the score.

Effect - What happens when you affect something. Like, the effect of that call was that my team lost.

 

[Speg]

Two - quantity, as in I have two eyes

Too - also, as in I want to come, too.

To - location - As in go to the store.

Too - overly as in too many, too much, too green

Affect - verb, as in that call will affect the score.

Effect - What happens when you affect something. Like, the effect of that call was that my team lost.

I knew to too and two :) The explination of affect/effect was helpful though. I betcha that I'll have it perfectly now :)

 

[akabryanhall]

Lol or "The sound effect affected that guitar."

 

[Paul_N]

And if they still can't get it, just give them this:

 

[110reef]

Well, I wanted to be sure that my explanation was correct, so I looked it up. And while I think my explanation was correct for what it was, it wasn't complete. So here is an official one:

Affect and effect, each both noun and verb, share the sense of “influence,†and because of their similarity in pronunciation are sometimes confused in writing. As a verb affect means “to act on†or “to move†( His words affected the crowd so deeply that many wept ); affect means “to pretend†or “to assume†( new students affecting a nonchalance they didn't feel ). The verb effect means “to bring about, accomplishâ€: Her administration effected radical changes. The noun effect means “result, consequenceâ€: the serious effects of the oil spill. The noun affect pronounced with the stress on the first syllable, is a technical term in psychology and psychiatry. Affect is not used as a noun.

 

[drainbamage]

Marcus Aurelius: you should not appear a pedant, constantly correcting people, or jumping on them for erros in grammar, syntax or pronunciation, but just answer the question, bring up another example or debate the substantive issue itself, as opposed to its wording; the clever educator moves the discussion away from the error onto another plane, but then subtly and unobtrusively introduces the correct expression (of grammar, snyax, or pronunciation,) so that the pupil learns his error without being humiliated for having made it.

2000 years before the internet, the wise philosopher/caesar had internet forums figured out :tongue: