Re: CHAT: Nonstandard usage (was Natural language change (was Re: Charlie and I))

>> And sigh as I will, I think the "lie/lay" distinction is going to be
>> snuffed out within my lifetime.
>
>I hope so... I always feel like using "lay" as a past tense sounds strange,
>even though it's the prescribed word, and "lain" sounds downright foreign
Aw, c'mon, I know you're laying to us!  ~alypius