Haha, I loved this, Bill. I was chuckling all the way through! (I thought about typing “threw” but thought better of it. I don’t need the Grammar Police on my tail!) 🤣
Finally! Now I can stop groaning over the lay / lie errors in everyone else's writing! What a relief! Now I can just focus on different to / different than / different from.... Thanks for the clever "news", Bill
The grammar police removing words to deal with resource issues will leai the groundwork for more deleted words in the future! Soon we won’t be able to say anything at all!
It was lovely thank you. I especially liked when we taught about haiku in English and considereth Twitter a modern form of this poetic discipline much maligned that it is.
What we take for granted as an American English speaker is really complicated, no lie when it is lying there laid out in front of you.
Haha, I loved this, Bill. I was chuckling all the way through! (I thought about typing “threw” but thought better of it. I don’t need the Grammar Police on my tail!) 🤣
Spaceswastetoomuchspace. Somanylanguagesgetalongjustfinewithoutthem.Prbblydntndsmnyvwlsthr!
Oh, if only that were true. My last poem would have been so much simpler. See below:
I would lay down my life to lie in a field of blue flowers, my soul laid bare by their beauty. My brain knows not if I had lain there before.
Finally! Now I can stop groaning over the lay / lie errors in everyone else's writing! What a relief! Now I can just focus on different to / different than / different from.... Thanks for the clever "news", Bill
Or do they?!
The grammar police removing words to deal with resource issues will leai the groundwork for more deleted words in the future! Soon we won’t be able to say anything at all!
Don't you wish? My biggest pet peeve!!
Finally, someone willing to leai down the law.
You’re showing your grammar police to be two times too rigid. 🤣
Laughing out loud and loving this, Bill.
Bill, your story reminds me of something... ;-)
But, how do they know they know the best?
Excellent. Thank you.
Amazing how you can get a story to be an exact number of words long and make it sound completely natural.
When we were - obvs
It was lovely thank you. I especially liked when we taught about haiku in English and considereth Twitter a modern form of this poetic discipline much maligned that it is.