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Know your limits (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 months ago by Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/funny@sh.itjust.works

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[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You lie yourself, and you lay other things. Your wife lies down and goes to sleep.

[–] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 1 points 2 months ago

That's an artificial distinction some grammarians decided to put into textbooks in the 1700s. Many many people use lie and lay interchangeably and the thing about language is how people use it is how it's defined.