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[erbie]

I need a grammar bitch icon.

Every time I hear that Snow Patrol song "Chasing Cars" or whatever it's called, it irritates me.

"If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me
and just forget the world?"

If you lay what? An egg?

He gets it right on the third one. What the hell is up with the first two? llnaughty thinks it's because "If I lie

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[lietya]

Even without hearing the song, I agree with you. How annoying. Maybe he means the *other* sense of "lie"? :) "Would you join with me in presenting an untruth to other people, such as the foolishness that 'lie' and 'lay' are indistinguishable, for example."

[erbie]

Heh

[rolypolypony]

I agree w/ llnaughty, but it does vaguely annoy me. Luckily I like the song well enough to ignore it.

I get really pissed when singers use 'was' instead of 'were' after 'if'.

[merina]

I'm probably guilty of confusing lay and lie on occasion but that doesn't stop me from having my own peeves. I usually get annoyed with people confusing bring and take. Oh, and people who use the reflexive improperly - you get that a lot on answering machines "leave a message, for Tom Dick or myself".

[llnaughty]

mine's "i" as an object. it annoys both me and i. ;)

[erbie]

I'm by no means perfect in the grammar dept, but I'm not writing songs and getting them heard by mmillins of people either. ;)

[llnaughty]

if i get laid here
if i just get laid here
it'll be with women
who just don't care about the word.

[merina]

I just ask that people to pretend I can spell and type...

[erbie]

I don't notice it in chat. Chat has its own rules for grammar anyway. I've been on one sort of chat or another for 12 years, so I just don't notice it anymore.

[artemis77]

Question - I saw a children's book yesterday called "Rainbow Fish: Finders Keepers"... isn't it "finder's keepers"? It's a cheaply produced chapter book series based on the Rainbow Fish book.

[merina]

I always thought it was Finders Keepers, Losers Weepers as in Finders (are) Keepers, Losers (are) weepers.

[artemis77]

I think you're right.

[erbie]

I thought the same as merina.