[Magdalen] To Lay and To Lie.

[Grace Cangialosi]

I just realized that my post might also have been incomprehensible...
 What I meant was the use of ":Me and him" as the subject, followed by a
verb, as in "Me and him went to the store."

On Sat, Apr 20, 2019 at 6:25 PM Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:

> The worse one for me is “Me and him [verb]..... I don’t know what’s worse
> than fingernail n a chalkboard, but that would qualify!
>
> Of course, it has occurred to me that that image of fingernails on a
> chalkboard is rapidly becoming totally incomprehensible to younger
> generations...  “Chalkboard?”
>
> > On Apr 20, 2019, at 5:20 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Grammar is fluid. It does not, and should not be mate to, con form to the
> > rules of Latin. And the more people there are who speak English as a
> > second, although a second *official* language (think Indian English) the
> > more fluid it will become.
> >
> > The one thing that still drives me absolutely nuts, though, and I freely
> > admit it, is "between you and I". Fingernails on a chalkboard!!
> >
> > On Sat, Apr 20, 2019 at 5:04 PM cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> > magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> The people I interact with each day seem totally unable to handlethe "to
> >> lay" and "to lie" differentiation.  The same is true with written
> >> materialthat I read regularly.  I realize there is overlapping of these
> >> verb forms.I suppose that there is little hope this situation will
> change
> >> because 90%
> >> of English speakers in this area confuse the verbs and the majority of
> >> thepopulation never hears them used in the traditional grammatical way.
> >> I suppose, since users/confusers of these verbs seem to communicatequite
> >> well despite the grammar "problem," we will find that this mattergoes
> down
> >> the path of the "who/whom" confusion, where grammarians havegiven up
> >> completely.
> >> And another verb irregularity:
> >> In this region, there is a situation in which a majority of the
> population
> >> rarelyemploys the third person singular of the verb, "to do."
> >> "Does/doesn't" isalmost absent. Does turns up in such as "He does play
> the
> >> piano,"  But the
> >> in negative usage, it reverts back to "He don't play the piano."
> >> I guess I should chalk it up to the evolving English language.
> >>
> >> David Strang.
> >>
>


-- 
Grace Cangialosi
Ruckersville, VA

*"Not all of us can do great things, but we can do small things with great
love."*
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