Loose and Lose

[homesick_american 1]

Look what I found the other day, though (in a shop in Cincinnati)... I had to buy it, just for the name! (Oh... and are US Milky Ways really the same as UK Mars Bars? I didn't know that!)

No; they're similar but not identical.

[Kez/JWolf 6]

Corruption or bastardization is a way of referring to certain changes in a language. The most common way that a word can be said to be corrupted is the change of its spelling through errors and gradual changes in comprehension, transcription, and hearing. This is especially common with words borrowed from another language.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_(linguistics)

bastardization does not been it has been abused it just means it has changed..... and Yes America has basderdized the english language and it has become American English..... there is a diffrence..

Kez

Ironically, you used the American spelling of bastardization. Being English I'll stick to bastardisation.

j/k

Didn't want to point that out, I thought Kez had embarrassed herself enough already...but BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

and what have I done to embarrass myself????

Kez

[Mags 112]

Look what I found the other day, though (in a shop in Cincinnati)... I had to buy it, just for the name! (Oh... and are US Milky Ways really the same as UK Mars Bars? I didn't know that!)

No; they're similar but not identical.

Personally I can't tell the difference; an excellent substitution for the Mars bar, in my opinion. Three Musketeers is also a sweeter Milky Way; pretty close aswell.

[Jenn! 918]

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Did somebody use loose for lose again?

[Jenn! 918]

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Did somebody use loose for lose again?

I just read it twice in 10 minutes.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

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Did somebody use loose for lose again?

I just read it twice in 10 minutes.

It really is an epidemic.

[Fandango 1,439]

Can I bump this thread when I see misused apostrophes?

[PlatyPius 5]

There be ignorance on the "lose"....

[pedroh 21]

why so many native english speakers have problems with words that have a's or e's.. like grammer-grammar, separate-seperate.. etc etc

[homesick_american 1]

why so many native english speakers have problems with words that have a's or e's.. like grammer-grammar, separate-seperate.. etc etc

Non-native speakers also have problems with them.

The English language is difficult to spell and there really are no universal rules. Spanish, OTOH, is piss-easy to spell.

[featherB 1]

Look what I found the other day, though (in a shop in Cincinnati)... I had to buy it, just for the name! (Oh... and are US Milky Ways really the same as UK Mars Bars? I didn't know that!)

No; they're similar but not identical.

Personally I can't tell the difference; an excellent substitution for the Mars bar, in my opinion. Three Musketeers is also a sweeter Milky Way; pretty close aswell.

I will go and find myself a Milky Way just to find out... and this is news to me, I must have somehow missed the fact that they don't have Mars Bars over here. I'm sure I've seen some around, and I suppose they must therefore be imported ones!

Not keen on Milky Ways (I want to eat sweets between meals AND ruin my appetite, damn it!), they're too sweet... so will give Three Musketeers a wide berth! This reminds me... I've been here seven weeks, and I've had precisely two small squares of chocolate in that time (some veryverynice veryverydark M&S stuff I bought the day before I left) - my diet definitely needs more chocolate in it!

[Alex+R 0]

What bugs me is when people confuse spelling errors with grammar errors. How can one confuse simple, mundane spelling, which is easily corrected, with grammar, the mathematics of language?

[Mags 112]

Look what I found the other day, though (in a shop in Cincinnati)... I had to buy it, just for the name! (Oh... and are US Milky Ways really the same as UK Mars Bars? I didn't know that!)

No; they're similar but not identical.

Personally I can't tell the difference; an excellent substitution for the Mars bar, in my opinion. Three Musketeers is also a sweeter Milky Way; pretty close aswell.

I will go and find myself a Milky Way just to find out... and this is news to me, I must have somehow missed the fact that they don't have Mars Bars over here. I'm sure I've seen some around, and I suppose they must therefore be imported ones!

Not keen on Milky Ways (I want to eat sweets between meals AND ruin my appetite, damn it!), they're too sweet... so will give Three Musketeers a wide berth! This reminds me... I've been here seven weeks, and I've had precisely two small squares of chocolate in that time (some veryverynice veryverydark M&S stuff I bought the day before I left) - my diet definitely needs more chocolate in it!

Yeah, steer clear of the Three Musketeers then, they are even sweeter than the UK ones!

[homesick_american 1]

Look what I found the other day, though (in a shop in Cincinnati)... I had to buy it, just for the name! (Oh... and are US Milky Ways really the same as UK Mars Bars? I didn't know that!)

No; they're similar but not identical.

Personally I can't tell the difference; an excellent substitution for the Mars bar, in my opinion. Three Musketeers is also a sweeter Milky Way; pretty close aswell.

I will go and find myself a Milky Way just to find out... and this is news to me, I must have somehow missed the fact that they don't have Mars Bars over here. I'm sure I've seen some around, and I suppose they must therefore be imported ones!

Not keen on Milky Ways (I want to eat sweets between meals AND ruin my appetite, damn it!), they're too sweet... so will give Three Musketeers a wide berth! This reminds me... I've been here seven weeks, and I've had precisely two small squares of chocolate in that time (some veryverynice veryverydark M&S stuff I bought the day before I left) - my diet definitely needs more chocolate in it!

I find British Milky Ways to be so sweet as to be inedible. I think Three Musketeers bars are much less sweet but that's my own personal opinion. British Milky Ways also have a weird honey-ish aftertaste that I really dislike. I don't like honey. If you've never tried a Three Musketeers bar then you don't know if you don't like it or not; give it a try.

They do have Mars bars in America, but they have nuts in. They're quite similar to a Snickers bar but not as dense and heavy. I don't like them because of the caramel; I don't really like caramel as it hurts my teeth.

Yeah, steer clear of the Three Musketeers then, they are even sweeter than the UK ones!

They're not to me! UK Milky Ways are fooooooooooooooooul...I can't even eat one bite without gagging, they're far too sweet. I can quite happily eat a Three Musketeers and I have no sweet tooth to speak of.