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Rigid Brain vs. "I am sat ..."

Damojo

Nobody likes a pedant (as I've discovered over the years), but, c'mon peepz: rulez is rulez!

Here is what my rigid brain's thought tornado is hitting me with several times a day, every day:

  • If asked where you are headed, you might reply, "I am going to the park."
  • If asked what you are up to, you might reply, "I am listening to Taylor Swift."
  • If asked where you are located, why the hell would you say, "I am sat on a chair"?!

If it's not, "I am went ...," and it's not, "I am listened ...," then it's not, "I am sat ..."! It's "SITTING"!

And the same goes for "I am stood" and "I was sat", etc. No. Just. No.

God, that feels better. Let me feel the love! Bring it on!

E&OE

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  • in reply to Damojo

    - luxuriant vs luxurious

    - infamous vs. notorious

    - inflammable vs. non-flammable

    - tortuous (winding or twisty) vs. torture

    -:enormity (past use - someone’s quality or character as being outrageous, or as being extremely wicked / an act of great wickedness, or atrocities) vs. enormity (current use - very great size, extent, or seriousness of something, e.g. responsibility or task)

    - fulsome (past use - negative connotations of something so exaggerated, or elaborate that it must be insincere) vs. fulsome (current use in journalism - positive sense)

    - nonplussed (past use - confused, unsure how to react and perhaps you can take no more of a situation) vs. nonplussed (current use - not bothered)

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