Middle_Man

For the 50th billionth time. NO!

Also I am well aware the video is not "real".

I didn't know people posted on this forum.


than/then is pretty simple to understand/remember, in my opinion. I don't judge people on whether they use the right usage or not, because sometimes I mess up their and there and I KNOW the right way to use it - I just messed it up because I was in a rush or preoccupied or something

however, I separate the intelligent people from the rest by the correct usage of lie/lay. Lay = put/place something down...Lie = "I'm going to go lie down". I saw a screen printing company once make 1,000 t-shirts with the phrase "go big or go lay down". idiots

[quote=cokalsM post_id=24712]however, I separate the intelligent people from the rest by the correct usage of lie/lay. Lay = put/place something down...Lie = "I'm going to go lie down". I saw a screen printing company once make 1,000 t-shirts with the phrase "go big or go lay down". idiots[/quote]

with something like "go lay down," a linguist might be able to make a convincing argument that the sentence is correct albeit misleading; for example, perhaps the sentence is just a truncated version of, "go lay [your body] down"

what's interesting about the lie/lay distinction is that German is very formal about it: they have separate verbs for "i hang the picture on the wall" and "the picture hangs on the wall"; "i stand" and "i stood the book upon the table"; "the book sits on the table" and "i set the book upon the table"

english speakers get confused by it because it's one of the only ones that has a different word for the different grammatical context