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Marius Hancu - 11 Jan 2010 01:30 GMT

Which one expresses, in your opinion, a stronger feeling of
irritation?

1. - You are always loosing your keys.
2. - You are forever loosing your keys.

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Thanks.
Marius Hancu

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Ray O'Hara - 11 Jan 2010 01:48 GMT

> Which one expresses, in your opinion, a stronger feeling of
> irritation?
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> Thanks.
> Marius Hancu

Forever, and one o in losing.

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Stan Brown - 11 Jan 2010 12:16 GMT

Sun, 10 Jan 2010 20:48:33 -0500 from Ray O'Hara <raymond-
ohara@hotmail.com>:

> > Which one expresses, in your opinion, a stronger feeling of
> > irritation?
[quoted text clipped - 7 lines]
>
> Forever, and one o in losing.

whenever I see "loosing your keys", I think of freeing them from
restraints so that they may go out and ravage the land.

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Chuck Riggs - 11 Jan 2010 14:02 GMT

>> Which one expresses, in your opinion, a stronger feeling of
>> irritation?
>>
>> 1. - You are always loosing your keys.
>> 2. - You are forever loosing your keys.

>Forever, and one o in losing.

AOL.

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tony cooper - 11 Jan 2010 02:36 GMT

>Which one expresses, in your opinion, a stronger feeling of
>irritation?
>
>1. - You are always loosing your keys.
>2. - You are forever loosing your keys.

Either, since the word is "losing".

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Marius Hancu - 11 Jan 2010 09:22 GMT

> >Which one expresses, in your opinion, a stronger feeling of
> >irritation?
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
>
> Either, since the word is "losing".

Sorry, cut-and-pasted it from someone else ...

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Steve Hayes - 11 Jan 2010 06:50 GMT

>Which one expresses, in your opinion, a stronger feeling of
>irritation?
>
>1. - You are always loosing your keys.
>2. - You are forever loosing your keys.

"You are forever liberating your keys" sounds better.

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Glenn Knickerbocker - 11 Jan 2010 23:21 GMT

> 1. - You are always loosing your keys.
> 2. - You are forever loosing your keys.

This use of "forever" sounds a little bit soft and poetical to my
middle-class American ears, both in sense and in placement.

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Robert Bannister - 12 Jan 2010 01:17 GMT

> Which one expresses, in your opinion, a stronger feeling of
> irritation?
>
> 1. - You are always loosing your keys.
> 2. - You are forever loosing your keys.

Both awake equal rage in me. I would loose my hounds on you.

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Mark Brader - 14 Jan 2010 20:51 GMT

Marius Hancu:

> Which one expresses, in your opinion, a stronger feeling of
> irritation?
>
> 1. - You are always [losing] your keys.
> 2. - You are forever [losing] your keys.

I'd say 2 is wrong, or is some foreign dialect, and 1 is right.

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A stronger feeling of irritation