I turned off when she said "I laid down"! She doesn't know her grammar, and nor, apparently does her editor. Hint: there's a difference between the verbs 'lie" and 'lay'.
(for a more nuanced response than my prior "lol": No, Pam, she does not say "I laid down." I assume you're referring to the portion she read about napping, as that was at the beginning of the video, and that section of the book starts on page 39. If you turn to page 39 in the book, the text reads, "every time I LAY down in that supply closet." This is also what I hear Ms. Moshfegh say in the video. So you should be happy to know she might actually know her grammar. However, the idea that a book written in the first person needs to be grammatically correct is itself rather ridiculous. Would you so similarly turn off a video of Mark Twain reading Adventures of Huckleberry Finn because of the grammatical errors throughout the book? I don't think you really care about the "mistake" you think you spotted, though (which is why I initially responded with just "lol"). You wanted an excuse to stop the video, and so you found one. )
ugh, one final response: in your comment, you say "She doesn't know her grammar, and nor, apparently does her editor." There are multiple grammar mistakes in this sentence. I don't think pointing out grammar mistakes does anything to bolster my own argument (not even when your comment is itself a complaint about grammar mistakes), but you seem like the type of person who likes things to be grammatically proper, and so I thought I'd point it out.
Great book. Wonderful writer.
Ottessa Moshfegh has an Romanian name while the surname is Iranian :)
I got tired of stuff like this in 1756.
I turned off when she said "I laid down"! She doesn't know her grammar, and nor, apparently does her editor. Hint: there's a difference between the verbs 'lie" and 'lay'.
lol
(for a more nuanced response than my prior "lol": No, Pam, she does not say "I laid down." I assume you're referring to the portion she read about napping, as that was at the beginning of the video, and that section of the book starts on page 39. If you turn to page 39 in the book, the text reads, "every time I LAY down in that supply closet." This is also what I hear Ms. Moshfegh say in the video. So you should be happy to know she might actually know her grammar.
However, the idea that a book written in the first person needs to be grammatically correct is itself rather ridiculous. Would you so similarly turn off a video of Mark Twain reading Adventures of Huckleberry Finn because of the grammatical errors throughout the book?
I don't think you really care about the "mistake" you think you spotted, though (which is why I initially responded with just "lol"). You wanted an excuse to stop the video, and so you found one. )
ugh, one final response: in your comment, you say "She doesn't know her grammar, and nor, apparently does her editor." There are multiple grammar mistakes in this sentence. I don't think pointing out grammar mistakes does anything to bolster my own argument (not even when your comment is itself a complaint about grammar mistakes), but you seem like the type of person who likes things to be grammatically proper, and so I thought I'd point it out.
How you must miss out in life.
We’re all waiting for your bestseller, Pam.