Gooder Posts

• "The man is laying on the ground" versus "The man is lying on the ground".
  

trolleydriver wrote:One of my pet peeves is poor use of English. I am just as much to blame as anyone else.

The following may help:

https://tinyurl.com/y9hmsnuu


Unfortunately, they do not address the difference between lie and lay.  As for example,

• "The man is laying on the ground" versus "The man is lying on the ground".
  

If he is laying on the ground then what is a he laying? Is he a chicken laying eggs?

The following may help:

https://www.grammarly.com/blog/lay-lie/

BUT please do not let my pet peeve stop you from posting.

End rant.

plantoid wrote:

trolleydriver wrote:One of my pet peeves is poor use of English. I am just as much to blame as anyone else.

The following may help:

https://tinyurl.com/y9hmsnuu


Unfortunately, they do not address the difference between lie and lay.  As for example,

• "The man is laying on the ground" versus "The man is lying on the ground".
  

If he is laying on the ground then what is a he laying? Is he a chicken laying eggs?

The following may help:

https://www.grammarly.com/blog/lay-lie/

BUT please do not let my pet peeve stop you from posting.

End rant.

 If that causes you problems imagine being an Englishman who speaks the Queens English & finds that " Americaneese " is taking over his life  


 In the USA you have so many different races & tongues  from all over the globe that only recently ( 250 years or less ) arrived on the shores etc it's no wonder that there are great differences in spellings & words to describe or explain things .

 The best things is to see if you can understand what's being said then translate it mentally to your own tongue or better still just accept it & get on with things .

 It was like having to learn a new language for me when I joined this site & even harder when I started to do several MOOC's  produced in places from all over the world .

  The most difficult thing was for me to do a USA originated  MOOC about better english ....
Ha ha , I binned that one after week six for it was like learning English as a second language .

trolleydriver wrote:Changed the thread title from Better Posts to Gooder Posts. 

CapeCoddess wrote:ONLY THE ENGLISH COULD HAVE INVENTED THIS LANGUAGE
We'll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes,
But the plural of ox becomes oxen, not oxes.
One fowl is a goose but two are called geese,
Yet the plural of moose should never be meese.
You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice,
Yet the plural of house is houses, not hice.
If the plural of man is always called men,
Then shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen?
If I speak of my foot and show you my feet,
And I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet?
If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth,
Why shouldn't the plural of booth be called beeth?
Then one may be that, and three would be those,
Yet hat in the plural would never be hose,
And the plural of cat is cats, not cose.
We speak of a brother and also of brethren,
But though we say mother, we never say methren.
Then the masculine pronouns are he, his and him,
But imagine the feminine: she, shis and shim!

countrynaturals wrote:

CapeCoddess wrote:ONLY THE ENGLISH COULD HAVE INVENTED THIS LANGUAGE
We'll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes,
But the plural of ox becomes oxen, not oxes.
One fowl is a goose but two are called geese,
Yet the plural of moose should never be meese.
You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice,
Yet the plural of house is houses, not hice.
If the plural of man is always called men,
Then shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen?
If I speak of my foot and show you my feet,
And I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet?
If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth,
Why shouldn't the plural of booth be called beeth?
Then one may be that, and three would be those,
Yet hat in the plural would never be hose,
And the plural of cat is cats, not cose.
We speak of a brother and also of brethren,
But though we say mother, we never say methren.
Then the masculine pronouns are he, his and him,
But imagine the feminine: she, shis and shim!

 Good one!

sanderson wrote:+2