Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site sbcs.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!sbcs!debray From: debray@sbcs.UUCP (Saumya Debray) Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: Re: literacy Message-ID: <6@sbcs.UUCP> Date: Mon, 4-Nov-85 13:09:37 EST Article-I.D.: sbcs.6 Posted: Mon Nov 4 13:09:37 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Nov-85 08:23:25 EST References: <747@cyb-eng.UUCP> <9700105@uiucdcs> <910@prlb2.UUCP> Organization: Computer Science Dept, SUNY@Stony Brook Lines: 13 One that really irritates me is the use of "lay" when the user means "lie", as in "I was laying on my bed when ...". It's bad enough to have to hear it from the plebs, I now find the rot spreading to the radio as well! Don't these people know that in polite society, "lay" is not used as a present tense verb in public? -- Saumya Debray SUNY at Stony Brook uucp: {allegra, hocsd, philabs, ogcvax} !sbcs!debray arpa: debray%suny-sb.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa CSNet: debray@sbcs.csnet