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"Back to Bosnia with Oscar-winning "No Man's Land""

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Anonymous A. Taidt Sfinctre said...

"Ultimately, the man on the mine is left laying there..."

Steve, I don't normally correct people's English, but it should be "lying there". The spreading misuse of "laying" is one of the more depressing developments in the ongoing degradation of the English language, almost as bad as "between he and I". This stuff is spreading like kudzu, and it has to stopped. It takes people like you, Steve, to stop it.

Join the fight.

10/5/07, 6:29 AM

Anonymous Paul said...

If I'm going to stick my nose into tribal vendettas, let it be under gleaming blue skies, as in "Lawrence of Arabia" or "The Man Who Would Be King."

Steve,

You are always telling us about how you predicted such-a-so by referring back to an earlier article. Will you hereby officially eat your words this time? :-)

10/5/07, 6:56 PM

Blogger Steve Sailer said...

My point was cinematic -- blue desert skies make for better-looking adventure epics than does drizzle. Poking their noses into Kafiristani vendettas didn't work out too well in the end for Danny and Peachey in "The Man Who Would Be King," but it made for a good looking movie.

10/5/07, 9:53 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Steve, I don't normally correct people's English, but it should be 'lying there'."


Fortunately, I normally mock misguided pomposity and I shall do so right now:

You don't know what you're talking about, your 'correction' is not at all substantive, and you've revealed yourself as a shining example of the tragically ironic insecure elitist.

http://camba.ucsd.edu/~bakovic/ll/grammar_puss.html


It's only the man with nothing to say who corrects someone else's grammar. No one appreciates it, and it reflects poorly on the critic (and not the author).

10/6/07, 5:46 PM

Blogger Steve Sailer said...

Actually, I do appreciate it. I've had a problem with "lay" and "lie" for years. I hope I've gotten past it since 2001, but if I have, it's only because John McCarthy, the computer scientist, sent me an email pointing out my error in that regard.

10/6/07, 6:11 PM

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