To: Gamecock
and a man laying in the front yardDid they stop teaching that whole lay/lie thing in journalism school?
10 posted on
08/06/2014 7:01:37 AM PDT by
TruthShallSetYouFree
(When using "he" or "him" to refer to Barack Obama, is it still okay to use the lower case "h"?)
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
Did they stop teaching that whole lay/lie thing in journalism school?There's not a day that goes by that I don't see an egregious error in the media. lay/lie, marshall/martial, fewer/less, misplaced modifiers, and incorrect use of apostrophes.
Of course our president doesn't know when it's appropriate to say I or me.
"President Bush invited Michelle and I to the White House..."
12 posted on
08/06/2014 7:08:49 AM PDT by
ladyjane
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
I learned it in 4th grade.
14 posted on
08/06/2014 7:15:49 AM PDT by
Tax-chick
(No power in the 'verse can stop me.)
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
Did they stop teaching that whole lay/lie thing in journalism school? They are too busy teaching journalists to lie to worry about the associated grammar.
19 posted on
08/06/2014 7:59:18 AM PDT by
Pollster1
("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
Did they stop teaching that whole lay/lie thing in journalism school? Hard to avoid when the so-called "professors" are illiterate themselves.
Among the "new English" also new are :
"its-it's", "used to be"- "use to be", "would have-would of" and a few others that don't come immediately to mind.
The ultimate irony is book reviewers at Amazon, written my presumably erudite readers using big words, are also sloppy with their creative use of strange words and phrases.
23 posted on
08/06/2014 8:31:56 AM PDT by
publius911
( Politicians come and go... but the (union) bureaucracy lives and grows forever.)
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
Did they stop teaching that whole lay/lie thing in journalism school?
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Well, yes, and there are many other grammar and spelling rules that have been discarded. But, come on, grammar is so last century.
24 posted on
08/06/2014 8:33:52 AM PDT by
Bigg Red
(31 May 2014: Obamugabe officially declares the USA a vanquished subject of the Global Caliphate.)
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