Yer Mother's a wee bit annoyed

[roxy]

Behold!



Bear



Bare

Don't use bare when you mean bear! As in "Dean could not bear the guilt. Any guilt. All the guilt. Guilt over all the things." He does not bare the weight of all that guilt.

I mean it. Stop doing that.

Comments

[nicnac918.livejournal.com]

Not to spark an argument, but from what I can tell the think/thing disagreement seems to be one of the great debates for the ages. Think makes more sense in the context of 'another' (what was the first thing?) and thing makes more sense from a grammar perspective (unless your name is Dr. Suess, 'think' is not a noun). They also have slightly different connotations, think implies that if the listener believes x then they will soon find themselves revaluating that opinion, whereas thing is more threatening, saying the listener will suffer some vague negative consequence if they continue to believe x.

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

My mom used to say you have another think coming and I always thought it was just supposed to be amusing. Like, "I yam what I yam and that's all I yam." Which makes little sense here but it's funny. And it's true.

[bt-kady.livejournal.com]

The way you explain it, it makes more sense to me, but I still lean towards "think" being the more correct choice, more often than not. You're right in that this will probably stay one of the mysteries of the ages! LOL!