58008@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months 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-square49fedilinkarrow-up1143file-text
arrow-up1143message-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 · 2 months agomessage-square49fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarejimmy90@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up12·2 months 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