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gnomi ([personal profile] gnomi) wrote2006-11-08 03:14 pm
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To whom it may concern

In regards the use and misuse of certain words:

To lie: intransitive verb. Does not take an object.

Today I lie.

Yesterday I lay.

I have lain.



To lay: transitive verb. Takes an object.

Today the chicken lays an egg.

Yesterday the chicken laid an egg.

The chicken has laid many eggs.



Please make a note of it.

To lie, the partisan version

[identity profile] magid.livejournal.com 2006-11-08 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Today you lie.
Yesterday you lied.
You have lied.

Re: To lie, the partisan version

[identity profile] gnomi.livejournal.com 2006-11-08 08:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Indeed. Though a different "lie" from the one I intended. :-)

Re: To lie, the partisan version

[identity profile] magid.livejournal.com 2006-11-08 08:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, yes, of course. It's just in the wake of reading all sorts of political stuff recently... that was what I thought was going to be the second line :-).

Re: To lie, the partisan version

[identity profile] gnomi.livejournal.com 2006-11-08 09:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Heh. Yes, indeedy.