• kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    14 hours ago

    There are two ways this can go

    1. AOC is sabotaged in the primary like Bernie, she loses
    2. AOC somehow wins the primary, shes than sabotaged by her own party during the general election and loses.
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          20 hours ago

          Same reason why they keep mixing up you’re and your; or there, their, and there. It’s simple stuff, but maybe they’re non-native speakers (or probably just dumb).

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          19 hours ago

          The spelling of “lose/loose” is the exception to the common rule that words like “chose/choose” follow.

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            18 hours ago

            what? what words like chose/choose? i struggle to think of any word similar to chose/choose/chosen. chose isnt the same tense as lose. also, choice vs loss. theyre very different.

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              12 hours ago

              Just in pronunciation. Usually when you put the two O’s next to each other is affects the pronunciation of the O sound, as it does in chose/choose.

              But for some reason the double O in lose/loose does not change the pronunciation of the vowel at all. It instead affects the pronunciation of the S to sound either like an “unvoiced S sound” or a “voiced Z sound.”

              If I told you to pronounce “Loo” then we would all agree on what that would sound like, but if I told you to add a Z sound to the end of that “Loo” then you might say “hey you spelled lose wrong, it only has one O.”

              That’s the exception to the rule that I was talking about. O sounds and OO sounds are pretty straightforward but they don’t work the way you would expect in the words “lose/loose”.

              I don’t know if my explanation makes any sense if you don’t already understand what I’m talking about, but this is the reason so many people on the internet misspell the word “lose”.

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          20 hours ago

          It highlights lack of care, thought, or capability, thus reducing the impact of the overall message. It matters.

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            19 hours ago

            Yes, it’s a casual comment, a casual thought written casually. All of your assumptions here don’t apply. Why not spend time having a conversation rather than bringing it to a screeching halt enforcing made up rules? The only time I think criticizing grammar is warranted is if you’re genuinely confused about what they’re trying to say, and you can definitely be more polite when doing it.

            • kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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              4 hours ago

              Because they’re Liberals, why would they hold a genuine conversation with a Leftist when they can just insult me and move on. They know im right as they very often do and they have no real counterpoint, when I dont have a typing mistake to make fun of they just call me a tankie or a Russian bot for not bowing to the party.

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            17 hours ago

            Is that not how language actually works? How is telling people to follow made up rules not prescriptivism?

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      21 hours ago

      There are many other parties they can join that won’t boycott them, if they stay there it’s because they are fine with it.