{"id":1117,"date":"2013-02-07T16:03:04","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T10:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/?p=1117"},"modified":"2013-02-07T16:03:04","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T10:33:04","slug":"will-i-lose-sleep-over-loose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/society\/will-i-lose-sleep-over-loose","title":{"rendered":"Will I lose sleep over loose?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Lose&#8221; and &#8220;loose&#8221;, the two words who have no connection at all with each other but yes their pronunciation\u00a0is same and there starts the strong bond. Often &#8216;loose&#8217; replaces &#8216;lose&#8217; and in different ways. I don&#8217;t know if I am finding this more but there is great abuse of &#8216;lose&#8217; on social media. \u00a0In the sense it has vanished almost and has been universally replaced by &#8216;loose&#8217;. Why we have this fascination with that extra \u00a0&#8216;o&#8217; beats me but still I sometimes wonder why am I losing sleep over &#8216;loose&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>English language is losing its charm or acquiring more of it with our awesome inputs? I stood witness to &#8216;you are&#8217; being replaced efficiently \u00a0by \u00a0&#8216;your&#8217;. No amount of logic is going to make me understand how this can be even thought in the wildest dreams. But then it is cool to use &#8220;Your late now.&#8221; I would fumble and think if someone tells me this. Maybe I am still living in the era of good English or let&#8217;s say English which was logical.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Another replacement which comes at the drop of the hat is &#8220;quite&#8221; and &#8220;quiet&#8221;. Why? That no one knows. By saying all this am not trying to proclaim that am a great exponent of English language. No I am not. But I am great supporter of correct and simple English. I love when someone can weave beautiful thoughts in simple language. You don&#8217;t need heavy words to say something emphatic do you? \u00a0After all what is the point to confuse someone&#8217;s mind and then let him search the meaning and then understand your words? \u00a0Isn&#8217;t it better to say something in a way that it reaches directly the heart? After all writing is something which is an expression, isn&#8217;t it?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But when I find motivational quotes shared on social networks with inspiring images to add more to the charm and my basic instinct emerges to share it, at that precise moment \u00a0&#8216;loose&#8217; or &#8216;quite&#8217; or some other words come and snatch my basic right of sharing and caring. How can I share something where the grammar is not at place. I just can&#8217;t. \u00a0This problem is getting chronic day by day and can reach enormous proportions if not checked at the onset. Look at \u00a0&#8220;your&#8221; it is so famous now. One day I may be saying &#8220;I loose my sleep.&#8221; \u00a0What do you think, should we allow the onslaught of &#8220;loose&#8221; over &#8220;lose&#8221;?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Lose&#8221; and &#8220;loose&#8221;, the two words who have no connection at all with each other but yes their pronunciation\u00a0is same and there starts the strong bond. Often &#8216;loose&#8217; replaces &#8216;lose&#8217; and in different ways. I don&#8217;t know if I am finding this more but there is great abuse of &#8216;lose&#8217; on social media. \u00a0In the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1117","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-society"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}