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On June 24 2010 12:16 gchan wrote:Show nested quote +On June 24 2010 11:49 CharlieMurphy wrote:
The unbalanced equipment caused problems.
Usage lose. Getting a little loose with your grammar. Unbalanced is the past tense form of the verb unbalance; the adjective form of unbalance (as a noun) is unbalanceable. The unbalanceable equipment caused problems. That is, the equipment itself could not be balanced, and thus caused problems.
thanks for the correction, I hastily pasted the examples in there when I realized I'd forgotten them for imba/unba. But the point is that it's the correct prefix on the word so it doesn't matter that much.
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I tried not to lose my mind when I had to loose it to comprehend what the difference was between umbalanced and imbalanced. This however did not go all too well since my mind is currently imbalanced after the rigorous attemt as to not to unbalance my line of thought. To lose, when attemting to loose, seemed to have an imbalancing result.
+ Show Spoiler +My try at applying the knowledge acquired by this post
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do people actually mess up lose and loose....?
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On June 24 2010 12:43 banana wrote:I tried not to lose my mind when I had to loose it to comprehend what the difference was between umbalanced and imbalanced. This however did not go all too well since my mind is currently imbalanced after the rigorous attemt as to not to unbalance my line of thought. To lose, when attemting to loose, seemed to have an imbalancing result. + Show Spoiler +My try at applying the knowledge acquired by this post
close but following "to" it should be "loosen". that'd be the verb phrase
loose is an adjective
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On June 24 2010 12:50 SC2Phoenix wrote:
do people actually mess up lose and loose....?
i don't get the point of this thread, there are COUNTLESS words that are commonly misused/switched with other words, and efforts would be in vain trying to help all those people
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i don't get the point of this thread, there are COUNTLESS words that are commonly misused/switched with other words, and efforts would be in vain trying to help all those people The only hard ones I can think of would be: already and all ready, altogether and all together.
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I had a final for a class this past quarter where in the directions it said, "You will loose points for incorrect spelling." I raged and circled it.
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On June 24 2010 13:05 Teogamer wrote:
I had a final for a class this past quarter where in the directions it said, "You will loose points for incorrect spelling." I raged and circled it.
maybe the teacher was testing people, bonus points for circling it?
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I fully support this blog. I'm soooo tired of reading people say "loose" instead of "lose". Most likely this won't change a thing though... At least I'll have a place to link them though!
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On June 24 2010 13:14 selboN wrote:
I fully support this blog. I'm soooo tired of reading people say "loose" instead of "lose". Most likely this won't change a thing though... At least I'll have a place to link them though!
that would be the goal :D
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On June 24 2010 13:14 selboN wrote:
I fully support this blog. I'm soooo tired of reading people say "loose" instead of "lose". Most likely this won't change a thing though... At least I'll have a place to link them though!
I like it, it makes you read things in a charming "English is only my second language" accent.
1 star CM for being a looser.
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On June 24 2010 12:16 gchan wrote:Show nested quote +On June 24 2010 11:49 CharlieMurphy wrote:
The unbalanced equipment caused problems.
Usage lose. Getting a little loose with your grammar. Unbalanced is the past tense form of the verb unbalance; the adjective form of unbalance (as a noun) is unbalanceable. The unbalanceable equipment caused problems. That is, the equipment itself could not be balanced, and thus caused problems.
I don't want to start an argument, but as far as I can see, "unbalanced" is totally correct. Why can't equipment have been unbalanced [by someone/something]?
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On June 24 2010 13:43 Z3kk wrote:Show nested quote +On June 24 2010 12:16 gchan wrote:On June 24 2010 11:49 CharlieMurphy wrote:
The unbalanced equipment caused problems.
Usage lose. Getting a little loose with your grammar. Unbalanced is the past tense form of the verb unbalance; the adjective form of unbalance (as a noun) is unbalanceable. The unbalanceable equipment caused problems. That is, the equipment itself could not be balanced, and thus caused problems. I don't want to start an argument, but as far as I can see, "unbalanced" is totally correct. Why can't equipment have been unbalanced [by someone/something]?
it sounds right yes, but technically 'unbalanced' is not an adjective.
So yes I could say we unbalanced the equipment, but I couldn't say the unbalanced equipment.
At least I think so?
wait, no I think it can be used as an adjective because unbalanceable wouldn't always make sense with what you're trying to say.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unbalanced
take this sentence from my test for example:
The ___ rotor on the airplane caused problems.
both words would work here and imply different things.
ps- firefox thinks unbalanceable is misspelled
pps- I need to find a better dictionary site, whenever I type into google it's always incomplete definitions and uses listed.
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Charlie is unbalanced.
The word is definitely an adjective.
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On June 24 2010 12:13 KwarK wrote:
I would much rather you spent your time dealing with the epidemic of people writing "dieing". Triple vowels must be stopped.
Bureau?
Although, technically that comes from French, BUT IT'S ALSO IN ENGLISH NOW!
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I'm still wondering how you can mix up those two words...:s
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On June 24 2010 15:06 SilverSkyLark wrote:
I'm still wondering how you can mix up those two words...:s
yea how is that even possible 
Tho i hate when i loose because my units are dieing!
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I'm loose.
I'm LOST.
I'm a loser.
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