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[GreatWyrmGold]

Oh, because you havent tried to conjugate Spanish verbs. They are going to blow your head. I actually know a fair bunch of "educated" (they went to school and all) people here that still use them wrong. Mix it with a quite particular dialect that affects a third of the persons and you have a recipe for regular grammar mistakes.

I've taken Spanish classes, and let me tell you: Conjugating Spanish verbs may be complicated, but it doesn't have nearly as many exceptions as English.

Well, that's a good point. The "exceptions" in Spanish are all simmilar to another, if not working the exact way. I don't find a pattern between English exceptions, or at least not one that is useful as a rule of thumb or simmilar.

And even rules of thumb are suspect.
To paraphrase Taylor Herbert, the "i before e except after c" rule has more exceptions than it has words that follow it.

[Eotyrannus]

Im pretty sure its something along the lines of lay or layed, lied is the past tense of lying.

Layed is definitely wrong. Lay is a present tense. I'm pretty sure it's lied.
Edit: Wait, it is lay. That sounds weird.

Or is it laid?

And thus my point is proved.

[Unholy_Pariah]

Im pretty sure its something along the lines of lay or layed, lied is the past tense of lying.

Layed is definitely wrong. Lay is a present tense. I'm pretty sure it's lied.
Edit: Wait, it is lay. That sounds weird.

Or is it laid?

And thus my point is proved.

Or was it proven?

[Eotyrannus]

Im pretty sure its something along the lines of lay or layed, lied is the past tense of lying.

Layed is definitely wrong. Lay is a present tense. I'm pretty sure it's lied.
Edit: Wait, it is lay. That sounds weird.

Or is it laid?

And thus my point is proved.

Or was it proven?

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[GreatWyrmGold]

Obtain, at least, is a regular verb.

[Elephant Parade]

Similar has only one "m."

[Toaster]

http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/lay-versus-lie

[Tomcost]

Similar has only one "m."

Noted and editted.

And now this threas should be renamed to "The Pit of Magic, where we mutually correct our grammar if the GM doesn't update".

Again, how did this derail into a metalinguistic discussion?

[Unholy_Pariah]

Similar has only one "m."

Noted and editted.

And now this threas should be renamed to "The Pit of Magic, where we mutually correct our grammar if the GM doesn't update".

Again, how did this derrail into a metalinguistic discussion?

A wizard did it.

[Eotyrannus]

Similar has only one "m."

Noted and editted.

And now this threas should be renamed to "The Pit of Magic, where we mutually correct our grammar if the GM doesn't update".

Again, how did this derrail into a metalinguistic discussion?

A wizard did it.

We're ALL wizards! That's not a helpful answer!

[Unholy_Pariah]

Similar has only one "m."

Noted and editted.

And now this threas should be renamed to "The Pit of Magic, where we mutually correct our grammar if the GM doesn't update".

Again, how did this derrail into a metalinguistic discussion?

A wizard did it.

We're ALL wizards! That's not a helpful answer!

No i suppose not, but it's true nonetheless.

[Elephant Parade]

Derail has only one "r." I notice these things the instant I see them.

[Tomcost]

Derail has only one "r." I notice these things the instant I see them.

Thanks again. But I think that it was a typo this time.

[Bigf00t]

Again, how did this derrail into a metalinguistic discussion?

A wizard did it.

We're ALL wizards! That's not a helpful answer!

If only I had more sig space. Alas.

A Pit of Magic, less a meet of grammar Nazis, more like grammar tea-parties.

This is amazing, is this even on the internet?

[Tomcost]

Again, how did this derrail into a metalinguistic discussion?

A wizard did it.

We're ALL wizards! That's not a helpful answer!

If only I had more sig space. Alas.

A Pit of Magic, less a meet of grammar Nazis, more like grammar tea-parties.

This is amazing, is this even on the internet?

It is on the darkest sanctuary of The Internet, hidding at the corner of the independent game-designers behind a wall of ASCII and defended by complicated mechanics.

But I disagree on the Tea Party comparation, as we don't have enough power to grab Bay12 by the balls and demand DF to be even more harcore while we threaten to stop donations if Toady doesn't agree, yet.