my rage burns bright and true

[carleton97]

Oh, how I hate you lay/lie.

I'm not a stupid person. I am not unaware of various and sundry grammatical eccentricities in English, but I absolutely cannot master the past tense of lay/lie. I've had it explained to me a myriad of different ways, yet I simply cannot grasp it.

It makes it entirely too difficult to write porn.

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[exitsign.livejournal.com]

people lie. that's the only way i can remember it. ::has told you that 9878098098 times before, obviously just likes to hear herself talk::

fuck. fuck. i am choking on a tostito! can't breathe. oh, god. okay. ew. that was uncomfortable for a minute there.

[carleton97.livejournal.com]

I *know* you've told me and it *always* makes sense when you're telling me, but then it's gone.

[exitsign.livejournal.com]

how hard is it to remember that people are liars and thus remember that you use lie when talking about people or other movey/breathy type things (dogs, cats, giant sloths)? that's eeeeasy. for me anyway. but i think everyone is lying to me all the time so it would be. ::is paranoid::

[carleton97.livejournal.com]

hee. My cutie pie paranoid twin.

[exitsign.livejournal.com]

also! "have a lie down". nobody with a sexy british accent ever says they're going to have a lay down!

[foggynite.livejournal.com]

I feel your pain! I'm a stickler for proper grammar, but lay/lie thwarts me at every turn. Although, I usually end up on thesaurus.com just to avoid it...