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Notes: 2 / 4 weeks ago
Urban Dictionary definition
1. definately
- Idiot-speak for “definitely”
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Notes: 21 / 1 month ago from didyoudrinkmygingerale (originally from andrewnonumbers)
Lie/lay
An easy way to pick which to use:
Lay must take a direct object. Lie happens to yourself.
You lay down all your college essays. Then, you lie in bed.
It only gets confusing when you notice the past tense of ‘lie’ is ‘lay’.
She laid down all her college essays. Then, she lay in bed.
Got it?
Another way you can pick which one to use is by using your gut instinct/native speaker intuition.
Except.. it doesn’t work so well in this case (for me, at least) because ‘lie’ and ‘lay’ look and sound so similar.
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Notes: 21 / 1 month ago
Lie/lay
An easy way to pick which to use:
Lay must take a direct object. Lie happens to yourself.
You lay down all your college essays. Then, you lie in bed.
It only gets confusing when you notice the past tense of ‘lie’ is ‘lay’.
She laid down all her college essays. Then, she lay in bed.
Got it?
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Notes: 12 / 1 month ago
Did you know?
‘Toward’ and ‘towards’ can actually be used interchangeably. ‘Toward’ is more common in the US, ‘towards’ in the UK.
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Notes: 8 / 10 months ago
Someone explain to me why certain girls end their sentences like this~
This has always been a great mystery to me. Also, maybe in the same vein, why do some people put random dashes at the beginning or end of their Tumblr names?
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Notes: 36280 / 1 year ago from tammytingtingtan (originally from thatparanoidkid)
Some teens are out having sex, partying, doing drugs, drinking, but reblog this if your the teen at home, on tumblr, listening to your music.
Sadly, i am the latter.
Sadly, this reblog chain spread incorrect grammar to over 7000 Tumblrs.
(Source: thatparanoidkid)
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1 year ago
I had to read a few documents for US History
And they were so appallingly bad I need to rant about it here. Just look at this excerpt:
The Indian women did all the farming and physical labor, says Dr. Hauser. The women did all the rest. There were even stories that after braves hunted and shot a deer, they sent the squaws out to bring it back to the village.
Colonel Lyon, who loved on a local farm, tells of striking up a deal with one of Waubonsie’s sons, Neuqua. Neuqua agreed to work the land and get all the corn he raised. Neuqua showed up on the next day to begin work but brought 12 squaws along to do the labor. The Colonel protested the arrangement, but Neuqua reportedly replied, “Me hunt meat; squaws hunt corn.”
I won’t even talk about the utterly elementary writing style. Take a look at the blinding technical mistakes in a mere two paragraphs.
The women “did all the farming and physical labor” and they “did all the rest”. Oh really now? I need to marry one of them!
And “braves” and “squaws”? What are those? They are mentioned nowhere else in the article.
This Colonel guy, he “loved on a local farm.” That’s quite romantic. TMI.
Neuqua agreed to “get all the corn he raised.” Orly! If I decided to go raise some corn, I’d be a dumbass to not get them.
So.. why the hell are we reading this absolute crap in an AP class? The teachers need to at least look at this material before assigning it to us.
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1 year ago
I’m quite impressed by Microsoft Office’s blue squiggly feature.
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