See, I'm down with the idea of language creep, but "rein" and "reign", to me, is incorrect, not lazy. Different words!
Um... I have Word Usage Issues.
Mal: Hell, this job I would pull for free. Zoe: Can I have your share? Mal: No. Zoe: If you die, can I have your share? Mal: Yes.
'The Train Job'
The Great Write Way, Act Three: Where's the gun?
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Ailleann - Aug 11, 2008 12:50:45 pm PDT #557 of 6681
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda
Connie Neil - Aug 11, 2008 12:52:07 pm PDT #558 of 6681
brillig
I think it's natural language creep.
They'll take the proper usage of rein/reign from my cold dead fingers!
Ailleann - Aug 11, 2008 12:53:47 pm PDT #559 of 6681
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda
::high-fives connie neil::
Susan W. - Aug 11, 2008 12:57:07 pm PDT #560 of 6681
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
They'll take the proper usage of rein/reign from my cold dead fingers!
Preach it, Sister!
Connie Neil - Aug 11, 2008 1:00:30 pm PDT #561 of 6681
brillig
Aux Barricades!
Toddson - Aug 11, 2008 1:26:01 pm PDT #562 of 6681
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Not to rain on your parade, he he, but I've seen rein/reign AND rain used interchangeably. bah! People worry about American children not being able to speak a foreign language? teach them ... um, English ... first!
sumi - Aug 11, 2008 1:27:44 pm PDT #563 of 6681
Art Crawl!!!
I saw somebody use reign where they meant "rein" sometime in the past 24 hours. (Talking about "reigning something in" . . .sigh.)
sarameg - Aug 11, 2008 2:24:14 pm PDT #564 of 6681
Half the time when I screw up usage, it's a brain fart. I'll know the difference, but the fingers pick something else. I screw up ancestors and descendants ALL THE TIME without meaning to. I know the difference, given half a second. It's as if they share the same cell or whatever and there's a chance the wrong one will make it all the way out before the half-second elapses.
I put it in the same category as the brain farts that make me forget common words. Like canvas, last night.
P.M. Marc - Aug 11, 2008 3:15:46 pm PDT #565 of 6681
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I am pretty confident that I have typoed reign when I meant to write rein in the past. You know, when talking horsies. So I wouldn't assume that someone doesn't know the context from the homophone fuck up. Just that they have crappy editors.
Amy - Aug 11, 2008 4:38:26 pm PDT #566 of 6681
Because books.
"blush"
He can’t trust her.
She is his prisoner, and willing only to spare the life of her father. Whatever she says to him is suspect, and why not? He’s a beast. Who wouldn’t placate him, speak pretty and sit prettier, there on her cushion in front of the fire?
She will never want him. She is everything he is not—-young, innocent, beautiful, perfect. Pleasant conversation is a way to pass the time, another price she pays.
Still, she knows he watches her. Knows, and likes it. Under the weight of his gaze, she blushes, pure pink as a rose.