58008@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 15 hours agoIt's pretty cruel, particularly for non-native English speakers, that 'lose' and 'loose' seemingly switched spellings, meanings and pronunciations with each other when no one was lookingmessage-squaremessage-square88fedilinkarrow-up1140arrow-down118file-text
arrow-up1122arrow-down1message-squareIt's pretty cruel, particularly for non-native English speakers, that 'lose' and 'loose' seemingly switched spellings, meanings and pronunciations with each other when no one was looking58008@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 15 hours agomessage-square88fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarejimmy90@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up16·9 hours agoenglish is a very silly language that’s evolved so you can do almost anything with it it’s a risky strat but it seems to have worked
english is a very silly language that’s evolved so you can do almost anything with it
it’s a risky strat but it seems to have worked