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Very impressive video. The grammar nerd in me is also impressed how, for two years, no one managed to notice that the repeated phrase "we'll lay," although it
by kpozin 15y ago
Very impressive video.
The grammar nerd in me is also impressed how, for two years, no one managed to notice that the repeated phrase "we'll lay," although it rhymes in context, uses completely the wrong verb. (It should be "we'll lie.")
- mhartl 15y agoI noticed exactly the same thing. I've become increasingly alarmed at the decline of the lay/lie distinction in English, even in educated speech. In this case, though, I consoled myself that at least it created a rhyme. Contrast this to the chorus of "Truly Madly Deeply" by Australian pop-rock group Savage Garden: I want to stand with you on a mountain. I want to bathe with you in the sea. I want to lay like this forever, Until the sky falls down on me... They missed an opportunity. Here the grammatically correct lie gives a lovely rhyme between the middles of lines 3 and 4: I want to stand with you on a mountain. I want to bathe with you in the sea. I want to lie like this forever, Until the sky falls down on me...
- npc 15y agoHowever, 'lay' does (half) rhyme with 'bathe', which provides a much needed connection between the 2nd and 3rd lines, I feel.
- wlievens 15y agoArtistic freedom, perhaps, if it suits the rhyme.