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Please, please, please, if you're going to kill yourself....
Well, don't kill yourself, that's first. I don't want anybody I know (or, for that matter, anybody I don't know, but I doubt people I don't know care about my opinion) to kill themselves.
But if you are going to kill yourself, and if my request that you not do that is going to go unheeded, then, at the very least, don't kill yourself by hanging.
Because, if you do, the newspaper will inevitably say that you have hung yourself, and my internal red pencil will pipe up as I read it to say "NO! HANGED! GET IT RIGHT!" and then I'll feel incredibly insensitive. And with good reason, because it is insensitive, and the only justification is that you don't know what I'm thinking (unless I post this entry, that is) and anyway, once you're dead my thoughts can't harm you anyway, but still. Hung instead of hanged makes baby Jesus cry, it really does, and it makes me cry too. And then I just feel like I should feel something other than a desire to edit people.
Plus, I feel like a hypocrite. I know, I know, language changes, and I believe that, I really do... but I can't help it.
It just makes me feel bad all over, aside from the fact that suicide is a depressing thing to begin with.
So, to recap: Don't do it, and especially not by hanging.
Thank you.
(Also, don't make posts at ungodly hours. I doubt this post makes much sense.)
Edit: By the way, I don't know what dictionary you (dear anonymous person whose bloggings I've anonymously read) are reading, but mine clearly states that "rhythm" has two syllables, not one. I know, I know, we only write it with one vowel, but we also write island with an s, and that doesn't mean anything either. People very rarely read before they speak, and clearly they speak rhythm with two syllables. I'm not sure how you could make it only one anyway....
Well, don't kill yourself, that's first. I don't want anybody I know (or, for that matter, anybody I don't know, but I doubt people I don't know care about my opinion) to kill themselves.
But if you are going to kill yourself, and if my request that you not do that is going to go unheeded, then, at the very least, don't kill yourself by hanging.
Because, if you do, the newspaper will inevitably say that you have hung yourself, and my internal red pencil will pipe up as I read it to say "NO! HANGED! GET IT RIGHT!" and then I'll feel incredibly insensitive. And with good reason, because it is insensitive, and the only justification is that you don't know what I'm thinking (unless I post this entry, that is) and anyway, once you're dead my thoughts can't harm you anyway, but still. Hung instead of hanged makes baby Jesus cry, it really does, and it makes me cry too. And then I just feel like I should feel something other than a desire to edit people.
Plus, I feel like a hypocrite. I know, I know, language changes, and I believe that, I really do... but I can't help it.
It just makes me feel bad all over, aside from the fact that suicide is a depressing thing to begin with.
So, to recap: Don't do it, and especially not by hanging.
Thank you.
(Also, don't make posts at ungodly hours. I doubt this post makes much sense.)
Edit: By the way, I don't know what dictionary you (dear anonymous person whose bloggings I've anonymously read) are reading, but mine clearly states that "rhythm" has two syllables, not one. I know, I know, we only write it with one vowel, but we also write island with an s, and that doesn't mean anything either. People very rarely read before they speak, and clearly they speak rhythm with two syllables. I'm not sure how you could make it only one anyway....
