Are those girls really allowed to lay there like that?

BR wrote:

https://youtu.be/MFpBQ_o3znQ?t=1155

No, they're not. But apparently they are allowed to lie there.

Spainflyer wrote:

No, they're not. But apparently they are allowed to lie there.

Are you the teacher who thought I was being a smart aleck and made me fill out a table on how to use lay/lie in front of the class to trip me up? But then didn't even say whether I did it right because you didn't know yourself?

BR wrote:

Are you the teacher who thought I was being a smart aleck and made me fill out a table on how to use lay/lie in front of the class to trip me up? But then didn't even say whether I did it right because you didn't know yourself?

No, dear. I was that teacher.

I was fortunate to have had Mrs. Hill as my teacher in fourth grade. We all learned the principal parts of "to lie" (lie, lay, lain) and "to lay" (lay, laid, laid) that year. We also learned what the "principal parts" of a verb were, and the difference between an intransitive verb like "to lie" (meaning to recline) and a transitive verb like "to lay."

Teachers nowadays don't know the principal parts because, on average, education majors have the lowest high school GPAs and the lowest SAT/ACT scores among the students in most universities. The days when intelligent women were mostly funneled into teaching (and nursing) are long gone. It's good that bright, motivated women have many more career opportunities now; it's bad that children are being "educated" by--in many cases--the unintelligent and ignorant.

No, girls don’t lay, hens lay eggs to produce chicks, and guys lie to chicks all the time to get laid.

Yeah… we don’t do that here.

He could have asked why the officials were allowed to leave those bodies laying there. The bodies were out of commission at that point and just laying everywhere. It is no different than asking why the officials left some cones laying n the chute. But if the girls were choosing to do it on their own will, then they were lying there.

randomist wrote:

No, girls don’t lay, hens lay eggs to produce chicks, and guys lie to chicks all the time to get laid.

POTD

A generation got confused by the song, "Lay Down Sally".

Ms. Fidditch wrote:

I was fortunate to have had Mrs. Hill as my teacher in fourth grade. We all learned the principal parts of "to lie" (lie, lay, lain) and "to lay" (lay, laid, laid) that year. We also learned what the "principal parts" of a verb were, and the difference between an intransitive verb like "to lie" (meaning to recline) and a transitive verb like "to lay."

I guess I'm going to thread-jack myself. So if lay is the past tense of lie and those girls lay there in the past and aren't lying there now, what is wrong with what I said in the title?

Lmao the way this thread got hijacked 😭

You used "are" instead of "were".

Garmin Garmin Garmin wrote:

You used "are" instead of "were".

Because I care about whether it's currently allowed.

Irregardless, I could care less now. I thought I was posting on letsrun not letsbegrammarnazis.

Irregardless is not a word. Regardless is without regard. I doubt you meant with regard. And if you could care less now, it means that you care more now than before. You probably meant that could not care less now.

Bower Man wrote:

Irregardless is not a word. Regardless is without regard. I doubt you meant with regard. And if you could care less now, it means that you care more now than before. You probably meant that could not care less now.

You got me. Make sure you tell your coworkers at McD's how you corrected someone's grammar on the Internets. Is supersize one word or two?

Lay where like what? Your post offers no description of what you are referring to.

BR wrote:

I guess I'm going to thread-jack myself. So if lay is the past tense of lie and those girls lay there in the past and aren't lying there now, what is wrong with what I said in the title?

You used the infinitive "to lay" in the title, and that is a transitive verb: It takes an object. Those athletes weren't laying something down somewhere; they were reclining (intransitive), so "to lie" would have been correct.

That was the correction that "Spainflyer" made: "[A]pparently they are allowed to lie there."

To actually answer the thread's question, with the finish cameras and chip times in use today there's not as much urgency in getting people away from the finish area, as long as they don't block the finish line itself. At the beginning of the clip that you posted, it seems like one or two *are* blocking the finish (or are very close to it) and the officials are working to get them out of the way.

More generally: In recent years I've seen too much drama-queen stuff at the finish of xc races. To me, flopping like that just shows that you're not really in shape.

Is irregardless a word?

Yes. It may not be a word that you like, or a word that you would use in a term paper, but irregardless certainly is a word. It has been in use for well over 200 years, employed by a large number of people across a wide geographic range and with a consistent meaning. That is why we, and well-nigh every other dictionary of modern English, define this word. Remember that a definition is not an endorsement of a word’s use.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/irregardless

USAGE

Irregardless is widely heard, perhaps arising under the influence of such perfectly correct forms as irrespective, but should be avoided by careful users of English. Use regardless to mean ‘without regard or consideration for’ or ‘nevertheless’.

BR wrote:

I thought I was posting on letsrun not letsbegrammarnazis.

Cliché.