you're not their English teacher you're someone on chat don't let things bother you that really are needless stress. I am a teacher and I hear it all the time but who gets a freaking ass😆😆😆
I feel you. My peeve is when a person says "I could care less." Ok, that means you care, because you COULD care less. It should be I COULDN"T care less. Kills me every time!!
Then again, some people here are not native English speakers. Maybe you should try to write Danish, Dutch or German without mistakes 😉. Anyway thanks for the tips, always good to try to improve my English 🙂
If we’re doing this, my pet peeve is “should have” or “could have”. I want to thank my autocorrect for correcting it and I don’t want to train it to be wrong so I will leave it. But what annoys me is “s—-d of” or “c—-d of.” You can say should’ve or should have but not “of”
I hope that makes sense and it didn’t become confusing just because I refuse to train my autocorrect to be wrong lol
Omg yes. Thank you. For some reason I see this misspelling a lot here (for obvious reasons) but also so many other places! I don’t understand. It’s constant and drives me nuts too.
It’s true and I’m have a weird way impressed with myself. I’m able to overcome my brutally full stomach to try to squeeze in a one more bit of mac & cheese.
Try to give people the benefit of the doubt. 9x out of 10, autocorrect is to blame. And most people just do not care enough to edit or proofread their posts/comments.
In other words…. Lighten the fuck up
Omg. You are really exhausting. I didn’t originally comment because I make this spelling mistake. I commented because I am fully aware that my phone does often change the correct word to an incorrect word. For many words. Not the one that OP posted about, but that’s neither here nor there at this point. If you want to judge people for spelling mistakes and grammatical errors, no one can stop you. But you are all sadly missing the spirit of this sub and frankly, I see you all very differently now.
You are incorrect. Or you do not have an iPhone. It actually does. Just you typing it here in the comments, that is enough to make an iPhone want to change your word in the future.
I do have an iPhone it has never changed a real word to a word that doesn’t exist. I have a name that is spelled in a non traditional way and my phone actually corrects it to the traditional spelling, which is incorrect not to loosing.
I’m not surprised that typos have always been a thing. I obviously care a lot less than you miserable pricks. I’d rather see people come together in warmth and kindness about their shared journeys, than giving people shit about their ability or lack thereof to spell
Nah. Most logical people realize that typos happen and that autocorrect often replaces correct words with incorrect words. I know I’m not a dummy. And I know that typos do not make people look like dummies.
Your downvotes make me laugh. If it was another day, the stupid Reddit karma would be on my side. If you know how to spell a word, why the fuck do you care if some internet stranger does or does not? Like who cares? People are dying Kim. lol it’s so stupid. But go off on your self righteous spelling soapbox if it matters so much to you.
I completely agree, and I proofread as part of my job. When I’m not at work I might notice things like “loose weight” when I’m reading, but it doesn’t bother me as much as it seems to bother some people on here. English is a weird language, even for native speakers the rules can be confusing. And some people have learning difficulties that can make it hard to distinguish between things like lose/loose. As long as you know what someone means, who cares if there’s an extra o?
I’ve honestly never seen people go off about typos the way they are on this thread. Until now, I thought the wegovy community was a kind a welcoming place. Guess I was sadly mistaken about that. It’s really making me view them in a much different light right now. So much animosity over something so damn trivial. What a bunch of sad fucks.
It’s ableist and classist to correct someone’s grammar, pal. Not everyone has had the same access to the education you may have gotten. English may be someone’s second language. Someone might have dyslexia. Your take is outdated and boring and if it drives you bananas you may need to get a life. I can’t imagine being so bothered by something so tiny lol.
That’s not what ableism is. If you’re on the internet you can look up a word and make sure you’re using the right word, I am the dyslexic person you’re talking about and I’m hyper aware of this. Half my Google searches are “define: [word]” to make sure I’m using the right word.
I’m glad you, as someone with a learning disability, doesn’t think it’s ableism. But friendly reminder that just because you don’t think it is, doesn’t make that a fact and not all disabled folks agree with your take. Since you love your special little google so much I recommend looking up “Grammar, the world’s most under-recognized social construct” by Tracy Truong. It was published on medium. There’s also a really great independent article you can find if you search its title “Judging a person on their spelling and grammar reveals more about you than it does about them”. And lastly “It’s time to stop correcting people’s grammar” also found on Medium, this one by Margary Bayne.
I truly do not give a single fuck what people say here or how many downvotes I get on these comments. I just really hope one singular person sees these and are like “well fuck I didn’t think about that” and amends their behavior or language. It’s literally that simple.
Most people are not being intentionally shitty to disabled people. Most people don’t even recognize their language or behavior is ableist. I’m sure OP didn’t make this post with the intent of being shitty to marginalized populations.
Lastly, if you understand what a person is trying to say, if you understand their message, there is no reason to correct them except to prove your intelligence and undermine theirs.
This is victim energy. Stop living in the past or maybe not going to good schools. Someone is offering a quick and easy grammar lesson. The op isn’t even calling someone out specifically. As someone who speaks two languages and has a diagnosed reading comprehension disability 🤍
Congrats on your disability, literally don’t give a fuck about it because just because you’re fine with ableist language doesn’t mean all disabled folks are.
Also like….it doesn’t matter if you OR I is disabled here. People are allowed to call out shitty language and takes whether or not it directly effects them. Hope I used the right effect/affect here so no one is so hugely bothered, especially OP! 🫢
The point is no one needs your unsolicited feedback when you know what the person was trying to say. Correcting just to correct because it bothers YOU makes you the cunt. Hope this clears things up.
To be fair, there aren't really any words spelled like 'lose' that rhyme. Nose, close, dose, rose, chose all have the long 'o' sound. It sounds more like choose and booze and food. It honestly drives me crazy too, but at least I can understand why people would misspell it. English is weird.
90% of the posts on here are unnecessary because people absolutely refuse to search for an answer *that’s already been discussed and posted*. At least this one made me laugh. 🤷♀️
Not necessary, but possibly helpful. I’m trying to improve my Spanish and when I’m speaking it with my friend who is fluent and I make a mistake, she tells me and I appreciate it. Learning is growing.
She actually laughs at me a lot. Especially when my mistake is something like using “pero” when I mean “perro”. I laugh along with her cause it is pretty funny and I continue to learn. I didn’t call anyone out on this post. It was random. It would have been very shitty if I had done so directly to a person’s comment but I would never do that. Anyone reading this who has made this mistake is free to edit their comments and correct the word if they want to.
Exactly. OP-you have probably expressed to her that you want to be corrected, and she probably does it in a kind way. Like “hey, just a heads up, there’s only one ‘o’ in lose!” Not in the weirdly aggressive tone many people on this thread are using.
Here's mine: As a black person, it drives me crazy when black people pronounce looked and liked as "look-did" and "like-did"
We “axe” you to spell it correctly
Mine are expresso or expecially. Drives me up a damn wall.
you're not their English teacher you're someone on chat don't let things bother you that really are needless stress. I am a teacher and I hear it all the time but who gets a freaking ass😆😆😆
are you going to get me for not capitalizing my sentence start?😉
Celebrating ignorance is a weird flex
When I *weight* in each week I'm surprised that I'm not *loosing* more. But seriously this is all over the WW community site, too. Drives me crazy.
I could care less about when people make this mistake
I couldn't
Since we’re sharing, I hate when people say should have, it’s should’ve!! Also, when ppl don’t know the difference between you’re and your.
isnt should have and shouldve exactly the same thing? asking as a non-native speaker
They are exactly the same thing. “Should’ve” is just a contraction of “should have.”
thank you! :)
I think what people get wrong is they say should of instead of should have
Oh yeah. But that’s not what the parent comment said.
True.
I wish I was doing either
I couldn't like wegovy less!
I have to get payed before buying more wegovy
I hate gaining wait
😝
I need to deethaw
I have 100$ if someone can hook me up with a some wegovy. Just a taste
This ⬆️
Anyone have any advise?
Who's loosing weight on wegovy?
I feel you. My peeve is when a person says "I could care less." Ok, that means you care, because you COULD care less. It should be I COULDN"T care less. Kills me every time!!
I'm with you on that one
loosing 🤷🏽♂️
Then again, some people here are not native English speakers. Maybe you should try to write Danish, Dutch or German without mistakes 😉. Anyway thanks for the tips, always good to try to improve my English 🙂
It's very obvious by the rest of the words and grammar in these posts that they are made by someone who has a grasp of the language.
I hate 100$ instead of $100 if we are going to air our grievances.
What kind of sociopath does that??
You’re now destined to see it every other post. Enjoy and you’re welcome.
But it’s one hundred dollars not dollars one hundred! 😈
Oh I get it…believe me.
Do it!!
lol yea. But I am losing weight and my skin seems to be loosing 🤣
😂😂😂😂
Makes me almost as crazy as people coming to the sub looking for "advise" instead of the "advice" they should be looking for!
Your just being bias.
*you’re
*you’r
If we’re doing this, my pet peeve is “should have” or “could have”. I want to thank my autocorrect for correcting it and I don’t want to train it to be wrong so I will leave it. But what annoys me is “s—-d of” or “c—-d of.” You can say should’ve or should have but not “of” I hope that makes sense and it didn’t become confusing just because I refuse to train my autocorrect to be wrong lol
“Paid” va “payed” also drives me nuts. You’re exchanging currency for a product or service, you’re not sealing the deck of a ship!
Damn it. I haven’t seen that yet. Now it’ll pop out. Thanks.
I don’t
Let’s double down: Loosing wait.
😪
What is happening with that? I see that everywhere and it’s making me absolutely bat shit crazy. WHY??????
Omg yes. Thank you. For some reason I see this misspelling a lot here (for obvious reasons) but also so many other places! I don’t understand. It’s constant and drives me nuts too.
Alright I’ve got one on topic. Typically when losing weight, you’ll measure your “waist” not your “waste”. Um, but you do you.
Ohhhh….i needed that laugh!!! Thank you
Eww.
I’m gaining weight over here!
I think you mean wait 🤣
🤷🏻♂️🍰🍕🍔🤌🏻🤌🏻
🤣
It’s true and I’m have a weird way impressed with myself. I’m able to overcome my brutally full stomach to try to squeeze in a one more bit of mac & cheese.
If we're doing this here it's also thaw not dethaw. To dethaw would be to fucking freeze!
Unthaw instead of dethaw.
And it's "uncharted waters" not unchartered". You charter a boat. Uncharted waters means it's not mapped yet. I feel better now.
Also, for all intents and purposes, not “for all intensive purposes.”
And it’s “I couldn’t (could not) care less”. Not “I could care less”
It's "must HAVE" or "must'VE". "Must OF" is just incorrect.
😂😂 I just came to read the comments. Didn’t disappoint
Right, me too!!!!
Based on some of the side effects, people might be getting loose, too
Well done, sir or maam
Thank youuuuu
🙄
🙏
Try to give people the benefit of the doubt. 9x out of 10, autocorrect is to blame. And most people just do not care enough to edit or proofread their posts/comments. In other words…. Lighten the fuck up
How would autocorrect do this? You’d have to just type it incorrectly. Autocorrect isn’t changing lose to loose
Guess you don’t have an iPhone. Autocorrect constantly changes the correct word to a wrong one. There’s even memes about it.
Yeah but loosing isn’t a word. It’s not autocorrecting to words that don’t exist
Fuck off.
See it didn’t change that to loosing because it’s not a word
Omg. You are really exhausting. I didn’t originally comment because I make this spelling mistake. I commented because I am fully aware that my phone does often change the correct word to an incorrect word. For many words. Not the one that OP posted about, but that’s neither here nor there at this point. If you want to judge people for spelling mistakes and grammatical errors, no one can stop you. But you are all sadly missing the spirit of this sub and frankly, I see you all very differently now.
Again autocorrect isn’t changing words to non words
You are incorrect. Or you do not have an iPhone. It actually does. Just you typing it here in the comments, that is enough to make an iPhone want to change your word in the future.
I do have an iPhone it has never changed a real word to a word that doesn’t exist. I have a name that is spelled in a non traditional way and my phone actually corrects it to the traditional spelling, which is incorrect not to loosing.
And losing to loosing, which isn't even a real word.
I’ve been online too much for a long time. This was a thing when people typed from computers before phones with autocorrect
I’m not surprised that typos have always been a thing. I obviously care a lot less than you miserable pricks. I’d rather see people come together in warmth and kindness about their shared journeys, than giving people shit about their ability or lack thereof to spell
You *should* care because otherwise you sound like a dummy
Nah. Most logical people realize that typos happen and that autocorrect often replaces correct words with incorrect words. I know I’m not a dummy. And I know that typos do not make people look like dummies. Your downvotes make me laugh. If it was another day, the stupid Reddit karma would be on my side. If you know how to spell a word, why the fuck do you care if some internet stranger does or does not? Like who cares? People are dying Kim. lol it’s so stupid. But go off on your self righteous spelling soapbox if it matters so much to you.
I completely agree, and I proofread as part of my job. When I’m not at work I might notice things like “loose weight” when I’m reading, but it doesn’t bother me as much as it seems to bother some people on here. English is a weird language, even for native speakers the rules can be confusing. And some people have learning difficulties that can make it hard to distinguish between things like lose/loose. As long as you know what someone means, who cares if there’s an extra o?
I’ve honestly never seen people go off about typos the way they are on this thread. Until now, I thought the wegovy community was a kind a welcoming place. Guess I was sadly mistaken about that. It’s really making me view them in a much different light right now. So much animosity over something so damn trivial. What a bunch of sad fucks.
The only answer
It’s ableist and classist to correct someone’s grammar, pal. Not everyone has had the same access to the education you may have gotten. English may be someone’s second language. Someone might have dyslexia. Your take is outdated and boring and if it drives you bananas you may need to get a life. I can’t imagine being so bothered by something so tiny lol.
That’s not what ableism is. If you’re on the internet you can look up a word and make sure you’re using the right word, I am the dyslexic person you’re talking about and I’m hyper aware of this. Half my Google searches are “define: [word]” to make sure I’m using the right word.
I’m glad you, as someone with a learning disability, doesn’t think it’s ableism. But friendly reminder that just because you don’t think it is, doesn’t make that a fact and not all disabled folks agree with your take. Since you love your special little google so much I recommend looking up “Grammar, the world’s most under-recognized social construct” by Tracy Truong. It was published on medium. There’s also a really great independent article you can find if you search its title “Judging a person on their spelling and grammar reveals more about you than it does about them”. And lastly “It’s time to stop correcting people’s grammar” also found on Medium, this one by Margary Bayne. I truly do not give a single fuck what people say here or how many downvotes I get on these comments. I just really hope one singular person sees these and are like “well fuck I didn’t think about that” and amends their behavior or language. It’s literally that simple. Most people are not being intentionally shitty to disabled people. Most people don’t even recognize their language or behavior is ableist. I’m sure OP didn’t make this post with the intent of being shitty to marginalized populations. Lastly, if you understand what a person is trying to say, if you understand their message, there is no reason to correct them except to prove your intelligence and undermine theirs.
Words have meaning. That’s not ableist that’s just how communication works
This is victim energy. Stop living in the past or maybe not going to good schools. Someone is offering a quick and easy grammar lesson. The op isn’t even calling someone out specifically. As someone who speaks two languages and has a diagnosed reading comprehension disability 🤍
Congrats on your disability, literally don’t give a fuck about it because just because you’re fine with ableist language doesn’t mean all disabled folks are. Also like….it doesn’t matter if you OR I is disabled here. People are allowed to call out shitty language and takes whether or not it directly effects them. Hope I used the right effect/affect here so no one is so hugely bothered, especially OP! 🫢
I hope your day gets better friend. Sending love 🤍🤍🤍
How can anyone improve if they don't know they're incorrect? Improvement is not restricted to just one "class" 🤦♀️
Because it’s simply not your place to correct someone unless you’re their teacher lol
Every person is my teacher in that I may learn from them.
If you think learning only happens in school, you're going to have a rough life
The point is no one needs your unsolicited feedback when you know what the person was trying to say. Correcting just to correct because it bothers YOU makes you the cunt. Hope this clears things up.
Sorry, it absolutely does not clear things up. Be a solution to the problem, not an apologist.
Be someone who is willing to change when called out on behavior, not a cunt who doubles down.
Well you’re clearly bothered by this
Yes because this isn’t tiny, this is being shitty (intentionally or not) to a few groups of people.
What "groups of people"? It's a simple spelling error anyone could make. What groups are you referring to?
If you actually read my initial comment here you’d see I mentioned a few groups of people.
“Gotten” also not a word :)
It is! UK doesn't use it, but North America does.
Yeah fucker English isn’t my first fucking language exactly my point
It’s not?!
No, you've GOTTEN it wrong. Look it up, Einstein.
English isn’t my first language. Thanks for proving my point!
You are the correct one, classAffectiobate925, not the Peas person. So maybe you write better English than most.
Depends how much extra skin you end up with. 🤣
Ok that was funny
Louder for the people in the back!!
I like to blame it all on *speech to text*😁
Yes but they aren’t pronounced the same? One is “loo-sing” (losing) and the other is “Luce-ing” (loosing).
Of course you are right! – But tell that to my iPhone that seems determined to misunderstand the most basic things 😂
Thank you!!!
La hooo za her.
Lmaoooo 🤣🤣🤣
OMG thank you! Drives me insane! I can't lie, I judge those posts. Just say the word in your head and it's obvious how to spell correctly then!
To be fair, there aren't really any words spelled like 'lose' that rhyme. Nose, close, dose, rose, chose all have the long 'o' sound. It sounds more like choose and booze and food. It honestly drives me crazy too, but at least I can understand why people would misspell it. English is weird.
My pants are fitting looser because I am a weight loser.
You’ll always be a weight winner to us 🏅
This post is completely unnecessary.
90% of the posts on here are unnecessary because people absolutely refuse to search for an answer *that’s already been discussed and posted*. At least this one made me laugh. 🤷♀️
Given the frequency we see the mistake it seems that it is necessary
It's not gonna change anything though. The misspellings will continue, guarantee it.
Hey, if even one person learns from it, it was worth it
Even if a bunch of us laugh it was worth it! thank you for saying it!
Yes
It’s really not.
THANK YOU! It drives me so crazy
THANK YOU.
You're not a jerk for saying so. Spelling is hard, I guess, but people ought to try harder!
For some people here, English is not their first language. Give them a break. Totally not a necessary post.
This is correct
English not being someone’s first language doesn’t mean their English isn’t wrong
Not necessary, but possibly helpful. I’m trying to improve my Spanish and when I’m speaking it with my friend who is fluent and I make a mistake, she tells me and I appreciate it. Learning is growing.
Does she tell you it makes her bananas? It's not what you say, it's how you say it.
She actually laughs at me a lot. Especially when my mistake is something like using “pero” when I mean “perro”. I laugh along with her cause it is pretty funny and I continue to learn. I didn’t call anyone out on this post. It was random. It would have been very shitty if I had done so directly to a person’s comment but I would never do that. Anyone reading this who has made this mistake is free to edit their comments and correct the word if they want to.
Exactly. OP-you have probably expressed to her that you want to be corrected, and she probably does it in a kind way. Like “hey, just a heads up, there’s only one ‘o’ in lose!” Not in the weirdly aggressive tone many people on this thread are using.
Oh she absolutely is not kind but that’s ok - we have that kind of friendship.
Your fine...lol
I like when I read the incorrect "loosing" because it reminds me of "Release the hounds (pounds)!" They are loose and getting away!
LOL me too. But it's a common mistake