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0 pointssanderjd10y ago0 comments

I'm usually into this whole language relativism thing, but this doesn't seem right. In fact, your final point about it being possible that it meant loose-as-in-release is exactly why this is confusing. "Lose" is (probably?) what was meant, while "loose" kinda-sorta works, but isn't quite right, so now it's confusing!

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intopieces10y ago· 2 in thread

>so now it's confusing!

Is it confusing? Or were you able to tell from context what the user meant? I suspect, given the language ability you've displayed here, that you had no trouble discerning the meaning the user was attempting to convey.

Language is not a series of rules to follow, it's a loose confederecy of conventions we used with each other to get our point across.

swampthinker10y ago

To a native speaker, sure. But to a non-native, those words have entirely different meanings to them.

intopieces10y ago

Entirely different meanings? They seem pretty close to me: If something is loose, it's easy to lose because it's not tightly bound or fitted.

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