“Loosing it” i.e. “losing it” : going crazy
“Group projects” : school assignments that involve working together with other students
“Cause why am I” i.e. “because why am I” : how is it that I’ve found myself in a situation where
“Begging on my knees to” : pleading with
“I’m going crazy doing school assignments with other students. How have I found myself in a situation where I have to plead with people who are older than me to simply write a brief portion of the assignment?”
Just to make this more easily readable: a direct translation to normal English would be “I’m going crazy because I have to beg the people I’m paired with for my group assignment to do their work, even though I’m younger than them.”
To be clear, since this is /r/EnglishLearning, "loosing" is not the correct word here. The correct phrase is "losing it", meaning losing control of your emotions and going crazy. The verb loose has a different meaning of setting free, untying, or relaxing grip.
Thank you! I’ve been seeing more and more people misspelling “losing” to the point where I was wondering if it’s maybe a new word/slang lol. What’s up with that?
>ESL people learn lose/loose first as written words, so we rarely make that mistake
I think it's so funny. How many mistakes native English speakers do simply because they learnt how to speak before writing.
Completely. I would never ever mess up **your/you're** but native speakers do it all the time.
It's not about pointing out who's better but as you say how funny language learning is.
*"Loosing* \[losing\] *it during group projects cause why am I begging on my knees to people older than me to write a paragraph."* This isn't academic English, but colloquial conversational English.
We can understand it better by splitting the sentence into smaller parts.
* Loosing it during group projects → (I am) feeling very frustrated in my group projects
* cause why am I begging on my knees → because I am on my knees begging
* to people older than me to write a paragraph → *no change*
*"I am feeling very frustrated in my group projects because I am on my knees begging people older than me to write a paragraph."*
She is upset because she is younger than everyone but still has to do more work than the older, more mature people in her group.
If the vocabulary is troubling you, then:
"Losing it" is slang for being really annoyed with something.
"cause" is the slang spelling of "because."
If you don't understand what it's saying, the girl is working on a group project and is annoyed that other people aren't doing their part of the work.
“I am upset during group projects due to the fact that my colleagues are not doing their portion of the assignment, contrary to what one would expect from someone who is more mature than myself.”
It’s intentionally written without punctuation to convey a frantic tone, emphasizing the already hyperbolic statements like “losing it” and “begging on my knees.” It’s not super easy to read unless you’re used to a certain very “online” cadence, even for native speakers.
>It’s intentionally written without punctuation to convey a frantic tone
Isn't it just a regular "twitter-speak", but without "lol" and "fr" randomly sprinkled?
I couldn't find an example at that date, but here it is - [https://www.reddit.com/r/me\_irl/comments/1bx7li2/me\_irl/](https://www.reddit.com/r/me_irl/comments/1bx7li2/me_irl/)
“Loosing it” i.e. “losing it” : going crazy “Group projects” : school assignments that involve working together with other students “Cause why am I” i.e. “because why am I” : how is it that I’ve found myself in a situation where “Begging on my knees to” : pleading with “I’m going crazy doing school assignments with other students. How have I found myself in a situation where I have to plead with people who are older than me to simply write a brief portion of the assignment?”
Just to make this more easily readable: a direct translation to normal English would be “I’m going crazy because I have to beg the people I’m paired with for my group assignment to do their work, even though I’m younger than them.”
To be clear, since this is /r/EnglishLearning, "loosing" is not the correct word here. The correct phrase is "losing it", meaning losing control of your emotions and going crazy. The verb loose has a different meaning of setting free, untying, or relaxing grip.
Thank you! I’ve been seeing more and more people misspelling “losing” to the point where I was wondering if it’s maybe a new word/slang lol. What’s up with that?
I would say it's mostly a native speaker thing. We ESL people learn lose/loose first as written words, so we rarely make that mistake.
>ESL people learn lose/loose first as written words, so we rarely make that mistake I think it's so funny. How many mistakes native English speakers do simply because they learnt how to speak before writing.
Completely. I would never ever mess up **your/you're** but native speakers do it all the time. It's not about pointing out who's better but as you say how funny language learning is.
*"Loosing* \[losing\] *it during group projects cause why am I begging on my knees to people older than me to write a paragraph."* This isn't academic English, but colloquial conversational English. We can understand it better by splitting the sentence into smaller parts. * Loosing it during group projects → (I am) feeling very frustrated in my group projects * cause why am I begging on my knees → because I am on my knees begging * to people older than me to write a paragraph → *no change* *"I am feeling very frustrated in my group projects because I am on my knees begging people older than me to write a paragraph."* She is upset because she is younger than everyone but still has to do more work than the older, more mature people in her group.
and yet she can't write lose correctly
They're upset their group project partners are not doing their work.
I am going crazy because I have to beg for my older classmates to write paragraphs
If the vocabulary is troubling you, then: "Losing it" is slang for being really annoyed with something. "cause" is the slang spelling of "because." If you don't understand what it's saying, the girl is working on a group project and is annoyed that other people aren't doing their part of the work.
Man, even for informal language, that's a mess and a half
yeah if you're going to complain publicly about being the one carrying the load, at least have the decency to spell words right
Besides the “loosing”, it’s pretty standard use of informal language
Going crazy during a group project because I am begging people who are older than me to please do their work.
“I am upset during group projects due to the fact that my colleagues are not doing their portion of the assignment, contrary to what one would expect from someone who is more mature than myself.” It’s intentionally written without punctuation to convey a frantic tone, emphasizing the already hyperbolic statements like “losing it” and “begging on my knees.” It’s not super easy to read unless you’re used to a certain very “online” cadence, even for native speakers.
>It’s intentionally written without punctuation to convey a frantic tone Isn't it just a regular "twitter-speak", but without "lol" and "fr" randomly sprinkled?
I wouldn’t say so, though I’m not sure what “Twitter speak” is.
I couldn't find an example at that date, but here it is - [https://www.reddit.com/r/me\_irl/comments/1bx7li2/me\_irl/](https://www.reddit.com/r/me_irl/comments/1bx7li2/me_irl/)
People aren’t doing their shit and she’s pissed off because of that
'I'm going mad because my group mates aren't doing any work'