Anything which accomplishes GG avoidance is Worthy.
I used to know those lay/lie and so forth without any recourse to dictionary or English textbook. Then I a) got sick and b) got on the Internet. (A) undermined the beliefs I'd built from reading hundreds of books by skilled English writers. (B) exposed me to every possible inaccuracy. I never was present at that challenging moment in EFL students' lives, but you sum it up so nicely.
May I propose that your aversion to lay/lie may also be triggered by the significant time spent in that same damn position? Life is better now with lightweight e-readers, but when I was first sick I was stuck with commercial audiobooks because my arms couldn't hold the paper kind. On the plus side, Moby-Dick.
I have yet again turned a comment into "all about me." It has been such a pleasure to read glimpses into your life, and I'm sorry to have contributed not very much.
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dancing_serpent
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Date: 2012-01-16 02:24 am (UTC)I used to know those lay/lie and so forth without any recourse to dictionary or English textbook. Then I a) got sick and b) got on the Internet. (A) undermined the beliefs I'd built from reading hundreds of books by skilled English writers. (B) exposed me to every possible inaccuracy. I never was present at that challenging moment in EFL students' lives, but you sum it up so nicely.
May I propose that your aversion to lay/lie may also be triggered by the significant time spent in that same damn position? Life is better now with lightweight e-readers, but when I was first sick I was stuck with commercial audiobooks because my arms couldn't hold the paper kind. On the plus side, Moby-Dick.
I have yet again turned a comment into "all about me." It has been such a pleasure to read glimpses into your life, and I'm sorry to have contributed not very much.