{"id":1587,"date":"2005-05-22T22:47:41","date_gmt":"2005-05-22T22:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-1587.html"},"modified":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","modified_gmt":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","slug":"im-not-a-grammar-nazi-but-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2005\/05\/22\/im-not-a-grammar-nazi-but-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m not a grammar nazi, but&#8230; (part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunpig.com\/martin\/archives\/2005\/05\/11\/im_not_a_grammar_nazi_but\/\">previous post<\/a>, I feel the need to get another rant off my chest:  the importance of distinguishing between <em>loose<\/em> and <em>lose<\/em>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>loose<\/strong> is the adjective meaning unrestrained, detached, free, or floppy.  <em>Loose<\/em> change.  <em>Loose<\/em> women.  You can also use it as a verb, but in that case it means you are actively releasing something.  You can <em>loose<\/em> a ship from its moorings, for example.<\/li>\n<li><strong>lose<\/strong> is a verb meaning you don&#8217;t have something any more.  You <em>lose<\/em> your keys.  I <em>lose<\/em> my cool when you mix them up.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The strongest reason I can offer for picking the right one is the way I saw a piece of exercise equipment being advertised in a shop window recently:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Loose fat fast!<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now I know they were <em>trying<\/em> to give the impression that working out with this kit would give you firm abs and a tight butt, but the <em>actual<\/em> promise was that you would end up looking like a half-filled water balloon.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I&#8217;d rather not run the risk.<\/p>\n<p>Just get them straight, willya?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of my previous post, I feel the need to get another rant off my chest: the importance of distinguishing between loose and lose. loose is the adjective meaning unrestrained, detached, free, or floppy. Loose change. Loose women. You can also use it as a verb, but in that case it means you &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2005\/05\/22\/im-not-a-grammar-nazi-but-part-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I&#8217;m not a grammar nazi, but&#8230; (part 2)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}