As in "How can I loose weight?"
I see this a lot, not just a few random typos. One recent question had "loose" in it three times.
Is this a symptom of a failing public education system?
2007-03-31 20:03:33 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diet & Fitness
HAHA i just had to re sign in just to answer this question ya...so your talking about me well ya i am dumb and so are many people in this world
2007-03-31 20:07:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Same reason they use "their" instead of "there" or "it's" instead of "its". Part of it is a symptom of failing public education, part of it is parents either lacking the time to spend with their children to do homework or lacking the initiative, part of it is just laziness. It's too bad that people don't realize that, even though they may have very valid points, they will not be taken seriously if they state their case with a lot of typos and grammatical errors.
2007-04-01 03:13:27 · answer #2 · answered by hop0409 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't believe it is a failing of our public education system as much as a failing in the home. A teacher can go over spelling and english as well as other subjects in class but if the parents don't emphasize the importance of eloquence and basic grammar then children won't care... there is a link between education and obesity- as illustrated even in this sampling on yahoo answers.
2007-04-01 04:16:14 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
That bugs me too. I am afraid I am unable to answer your question though because I don't know why so many people (and you are correct, there are many) do this. And spell check never helps these people because of course "loose" is a correctly spelled word.
Did you notice how many people write "your" when they mean "you're?" That one really drives me crazy.
2007-04-01 03:09:49 · answer #4 · answered by Patti C 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because there's a lot of stupid people out there.
And yes, the Education System is in bad shape. Somebody needs to pull the plug.
2007-04-01 03:08:15 · answer #5 · answered by miri-miri-off-the-wall 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your uneasiness about government schools is quite appropriate, but to answer your question, many English speakers simply fail to notice that there are differing pronunciations of "choose" and "loose". They dismissively assume that similar spelling means similar sound.
2007-04-01 03:19:53 · answer #6 · answered by floridaformula5 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
lol they sounds the same (or close enough) so i can understand why people might confuse the two. they are also spelled the same, except for an extra "o".
2007-04-01 03:08:39 · answer #7 · answered by cellie_mania 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have no idea, but I HATE it! I especially hate it when someone calls someone else a "looser" (although I chuckle a bit too). I also wish that people could use "there", "their", and "they're" properly.
2007-04-01 03:12:17 · answer #8 · answered by ? 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
common typo
2007-04-01 03:10:59 · answer #9 · answered by little q 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
hukd on foniks wurkd fur me
2007-04-01 03:07:58 · answer #10 · answered by Xander R 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋