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[Globutron]

Oh, Pidgeon instead of Pigeon

[morrisonhotel]

[iRock]

I majored in history and I'd be annoyed if someone used quotes around my major. It's rude. That's like saying my "lawyer" is helping me with a labor dispute. What? He calls himself a lawyer so I'm "quoting" him.

Idiot.

[nukeday]

[Robbo]

Also, when you have a degree, you presumably no longer have a major. a major is like a course of study. Anyway; back on topic. I was decimated by my last round, so here I go: "Spaghetti"; is not a sauce...

[Robbo]

This keyboard has to go.

[Privateer]

[Globutron]

[rumdiary]

Years ago, when the search function worked, someone did a search for rediculous and ridiculous. They got more hits for rediculous.

[cragesmure]

[daskalos]

[daskalos]

On the interwebs, mangled homonyms don't bother me much. (Your/You're, They're/There/Their, It's/Its)

Quote as a noun bugs the snot out of me, but I accept that this is a lost cause, even though reading something like "I put it in quotes" makes me want to puke. That said, I do favor the summary execution of anyone who uses quotation marks for emphasis.

The one that REALLY bugs me, though, is Lie/Lay. Every time I hear someone tell a dog to lay down, every time I hear someone say, "I laid down," every time I hear someone say, "I laid awake all night," another capillary in my brain bursts. Eventually these mini-strokes will bury me, and I will lie beneath a tombstone that reads, "Here lies Daskalos, laid to rest grammatically by those who lay in wait for him to shut the f-up about Lie/Lay."

Just kidding. That's not what my tombstone will read, because I never correct non-students over this. I just smile and nod, let the capillary burst, and hope like hell that the person never ever ever wants to teach English.

For the record:

* Lie/Lay/Have Lain, and it cannot take a direct object
* Lay/Laid/Have Laid, and it must take a direct object

"How can I show you I love if you won't lie down?"
"I laid the her body on the sofa after she choked to death."

"Yesterday I lay down for a nap and had the loveliest dream."
"I dreamed that my hen laid two eggs."

"I have lain awake for hours, hoping she would call."
"I have laid bare to her my soul."

It shouldn't be difficult, but apparently it is, because almost everyone screws this up. It's very sad, but I suppose it's no worse than the existential sadness of life itself.

Cheers. Great thread, by the way.

Das

[daskalos]

Also, there's been some comma controversy in this thread. As I understand it, there are two systems. Open and Closed. The closed system deals in actual grammar. The open deals in approximating the way people actually speak. My take on the whole divide is that you'd better learn the rules of the closed system before striking out on your own with the open system. Hemingway knew every rule he was breaking when he broke them. If you don't, don't.

[daskalos]

[dyc]

I always hear "more faster" "more slower" etc