Bruce writes:

> When you use phrases like "some would argue", "according to some" and "some 
>  think", you no longer have to back up your statements with facts.
>  
>  This is why Fox News uses phrases like those in so many of their reports.

There are several grammatical mistakes that people commonly make on this 
newsgroup that really bother me. One of them is confusing the spelling of "losing" 
and "loosing". For some reason, there's a pronounced tendency by geeks and 
nerds to use them in reverse of their meanings. "Losing" is the proper spelling 
for the gerund of "lose," as in "born to lose," while "loosing" is associated 
with the word, "loose," as in "loose cannon."

Another is the constant tendency to confuse the spelling of "Faux News" with 
the word "Fox." "Faux" is a French word and it's spelled and means the same in 
both French and English, "fake," but it's not pronounced the same in the two 
languages. In French, the "x" is silent, so that it's pronounced "faw." In 
English however, the "x" is not silent, so it's pronounced "fox," and I suspect 
that's where the confusion is creeping in.

Wirt Atmar

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