Dear pedants, please bear with me, as I am about to bear a child and may be a little emotional. Late pregnancy makes it terribly easy for me to get in touch with my anger.
The polyphonic nature of the English language has so much to answer for. I find the prevailing confusion between 'bare' and 'bear' almost unbearable. It is poised to replace my number one pedantic pet hate, namely the horrific use of 'should/could/would of' instead of 'should/could/would have', simply because most posts on MN where this aberration is used are grammatically and syntactically lacking in other ways, therefore giving me a fair warning to expect an appearance of an errant 'of' somewhere in the text. But the dreaded 'bare' crops up within perfectly spelled and syntactically sound posts that lull me into a false sense of security only to metaphorically slap me across the face, baring my abysmally low tolerance levels for language transgressions.
Thank you, that is better.
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Bear vs. bare (rant)
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salonmeblowy · 01/12/2014 23:11
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