On Art, Craft, and Trusted Criticism
I was having a talk this evening with a friend of mine about grammar. Really the talk was about head injuries (Ever bang your head against a wall really hard? Geez!) and things sort of devolved into the proper use of lay vs. lie. You see, while I graduated cum laude from Morehouse College with a degree in English, I can still never remember the difference between lay and lie. I figure I'll get it one day when my brain can keep that information in check (telling me in the comments of this post still likely won't make much of an impact, trust me), but for right now it's just one of those things that I'll miss from time to time, especially in unedited, extemporaneous conversational English. The thing with this friend of mine is that he's a bit of a grammar fanatic and will correct any mistake made in the middle of a conversation. I've come to accept this and ignore him immediately afterwards because I find this behavior to be rather gauche. I doubt I'm a...