Comment Re:It's like this. (Score 1) 878
Sorry, but you're wrong. "What did you loose?" is not a valid sentence. At least, it's not valid from the standpoint of common usage. I've done puhlenty of reading in my long life and I have never, ever seen this particular phrase used anywhere. Even saying it aloud sounds awkward unless it's followed by a qualifier such as "upon the world?" But you're right, 'lose' and 'loose' are very common mistakes, along with affect/effect, you/your/you're, its/it's and many others. And they're getting more common as society continues backsliding into post-technological laziness and illiteracy. This is just one more indication that the last factor of the Drake equation must be shorter than we humans would like to believe.