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Originally Posted by Confucious is sex
Come come, if we are to have a thread on literature, surely we should not allow the written word to be devalued by careless spelling mistakes? Looses/loses is not even a homophone, there's no excuse. Nor will I accept dialectal variation as an excuse. Partly because this would be a variation of accent rather than dialect, and partly because no dialect of English that I am aware of conflates the pronunciation of these two words. Accent tends to vary vowel sounds, rather than consonant sounds; 's' for 'z' is laziness, or, perhaps if you'd rather, lasiness?
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This is all particularly bizarre as my "sigh" was one of defeat and acceptance (my positive rep of his post should have told him) and yet it is taken so horribly wrong. Is humility such a foreign concept to this board?
Call me a "mental slug," "lazy half-wit" (atari's favorite), "moron," "illiterate," or whatever but I will write typos from time to time.