It's just a typo that doesn't get corrected. People just arn't super duper proof reading, they're just watching for the red squiggles that indicates a typo.
You wouldn't be really mad if you spotted an "an" instead of an "and" in the wrong place, right? Because it's the same accident.
If you think about it in these terms, you wouldn't of had as much of a reaction ;)
No it's definitely not a typo lol, it's people who are reading it wrong in their head. The sheer amount of time that specific mistake is made very strongly leads me to believe it's most definitely not a typo.
Watch, now that I pointed it out you will see it everywhere.
This is only one combination of words for example, but you get the idea
While super rough/anecdotal... "loose my" has 38,000 results and "lose my" has 900,000 results. Literally 1 out of 25 times the word is used it's used wrong (if google is including roughly the same amount of items in its index)
The sheer amount of time that specific mistake is made
Don't you mean the shear number of times that mistake is made? I'm sure you have no insight in to the aggregate duration of time all these people took to incorrectly press 'o' on their keyboard.
You're making a point that I'm not ("someone is correcting someone else's spelling therefore ill dig through every single word to find a mistake they make and call them a hypocrite").
I just said above I don't correct people's grammar because a) it doesn't matter and b) I make mistakes all the time.
This on the other hand is if you see someone making the mistake (2 * 2 = 6). Even the most basic/out-of-the-math-loop person should not make this mistake. Or at the very least, it shouldn't be a common mistake.
These are 2 very common words, that sounds completely different, and there's nothing tricky about them. That's why it makes no sense to me, and each time I see it it's maddening. It's one thing to mess up something like....... "if I was____" (improper subjunctive mood), I see that mistake all the time, but who cares because how is anyone going to remember that? But lose and loose is just so fundamental to know the difference between when to use hard/soft "S" when preceeded by "oo". Furthermore, how many words are there that precede a soft "s" that only has one "o"... ? I can't think of any other than "dose".... but there are tons that fit the bill otherwise: hose, lose, nose, pose, rose..............
You wouldn't be really mad if you spotted an "an" instead of an "and" in the wrong place, right? Because it's the same accident.
If you think about it in these terms, you wouldn't of had as much of a reaction ;)
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