58008@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 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-square25fedilinkarrow-up183file-text
arrow-up183message-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 · 8 hours agomessage-square25fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarejimmy90@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 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