Him: You are amazing.
Me: No. Me? You did all the work. I was just lying there.
Him: Honey, people might accuse you of a lot of things but “just lying there” will never be one of them.
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Thank you to all Twitterers who responded to my request for help with this post. Approximately 50% said the above title is correct. The other 50% said it should read “Just Laying There.” Some also opined that it all depended on which side of the pond you call home. Fat lotta help y’all are. :)
LOL, so 50% of people who use Twitter don’t know how to Google? (Laying is for objects apparently. No, not “sex objects”!)
“I was lying there as he was laying out the toys.”
Thanks for the impromptu “learn something new every day”! (Wait, it’s after midnight, am I good for tomorrow already?)
Yes, well, Google provided inconclusive results on this topic. Trust me, I checked.
:)
LYING is correct here, although, technically, given the subject matter, LAYING sorta works, too (since he was somewhat on the receiving end). ;-)
LAY (lay, laid, laid, laying*) is transitive and needs a direct object – you do it TO something (or someone). You LAY an egg or a plate or a blanket. Memory tricks: if you can do it to an Apple, there’s an “A”; OTHERS ‘get’ LAID
LIE (lie, lay, lain, lying*) – meaning “to recline” – is intransitive – you do it WITH YOURSELF. You LIE down. Memory rhyme/tricks: “I LIE/LY”(present) – unless I did it Yesterday, in which case, I laY (past)
If you’re currently reclining on the blanket, you’re LYING there. If you’re putting the blanket on the bed, you’re LAYING it there. If YOU put yourself on the blanket last week, you LAY there. If HE put you onto the blanket last week, he LAID you there (hopefully!). ;-)
(* tenses: present, past, past participle, present participle)
Why’d you ask? I’ve never yet seen you use them incorrectly – unlike many otherwise literate bloggers, including those who consider themselves writers.
Laying Lying, Fucking Screwing, who cares anyway.
As they always say – “Alls fun in lube and toys”
Another way of looking at it is that laying is active and lying is passive, i.e. your usage was correct.
But, confusingly, it sounds as if you were far from passive while you were lying and he was laying you ;o)
Lying, laying – who cares as long as you had a good time?
It’s “lying”. Randy and MrP are correct.
I heart your attention to detail, even for a three-liner post :)
Strunk and White, my friend.
Which I absolutely do not often carry around and would never consider involving in a sex act. Never. (And I was only an English major for about a month. Imagine if I had done it for longer.)