FML

[tzikeh]

If EVERY SINGLE FANFICTION AUTHOR doesn't learn the difference between "lie" and "lay" PRONTO, I am going to SET ALL OF THEM ON FIRE.

NNNNNNGGGGGHHHH.

*koff*

As you were.

ETA You don't even have to memorize any rules, okay? I'll give you a mnemonic: "lie" rhymes with "recline," and "lay" rhymes with "place." IT'S. NOT. HARD. As for past and past participle tenses, LOOK IT UP. JESUS FUCKING CHRIST IN A CHICKEN BASKET. YOU DON'T EVEN NEED A GRAMMAR BOOK; YOU'RE ON THE INTERFUCKINGNET.

Comments

[kadymae.livejournal.com]

Can I put in a vote for lose and loose?

kthnx

[feochadn.livejournal.com]

Bear and bare have become my personal pet peeves.

[ellen-fremedon.livejournal.com]

Breath and breathe.

[terrio]

Chose and choose. Also whose and who's -- saw this one in a professionally published book a few days ago.

[epistrophia.livejournal.com]

Scrapped and scraped. If I see "X scrapped his nails down X's back" once more I'm going to scream.

[terrio]

And in a similar vein, "chaffed/chaffing" instead of "chafed/chafing".

[hubbit.livejournal.com]

My special irritant is "he's/she's/you're a real trooper". The correct word is trouper.

The phrase comes from the day (about a century ago) when life in a traveling troupe of actors was a hell of hardship and deprivation. One who had the stamina to continue such an existence, and who could even be cheerful in its midst, was "a real trouper".

[terrio]

Oh, and I was just reminded: defuse/diffuse.