[Magdalen] To Lay and To Lie.

[Scott Knitter]

I have trouble with misplacement of "only": "This train will only stop at
Belmont." So it won't stop and explode at Belmont, nor stop and vibrate at
Belmont? Or it'll stop at Belmont, but doors will remain closed? I'm a big
fan of putting "only" right before the thing it's meant to go with. "I'm
only driving to Target." So you're not driving and also rollerblading to
Target, just driving?

I'm sometimes told I'm too literal. "Happy birthday Scott!" What's a
"birthday Scott," and how would it be happy?

On Sat, Apr 20, 2019 at 7:10 PM Roger Stokes via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

> On 20/04/2019 22:20, Jay Weigel wrote:
> > The one thing that still drives me absolutely nuts, though, and I freely
> > admit it, is "between you and I". Fingernails on a chalkboard!!
>
> Worse for me is the nonsensical "all X don't" when what is meant is that
> "not all X do". An example is when a train is approaching a shorter
> platform and the announcement is that "all doors will not open at this
> station". The reality is that some doors will be off the end of the
> platform and so not open when the train stops. Similarly "All people do
> not have milk in their coffee" which would imply you do not need to make
> milk available although some people do actually prefer to have milk in
> their coffee.
>
> Roger
>
>

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Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA