Kind of like a wedding captcha. The groom was clearly a bot.
One is transitive, and the other is intransitive. It really isn’t that hard. And I care. This one grates on me.
:rimshot:
Just lie yourself down and lay still. This too shall pass.
The article says New Delhi.
I agree.
Actually, I wonder if both bride and groom conspired to torpedo their arranged marriage.
“Do you really want to marry me?”
“No. You?”
“No. Follow my lead…”
There was a Star Trek episode on this general theme.
It’s not the transitive/intransitive part that gets me. It’s the past tense that screws me up or causes me to double check. Just looking it up, the past tense of “lie” is “lay.” Then the past participle is “lain.” Whereas the past tense and past participle of “lay” are both “laid.” For some reason, that doesn’t stick with me. For the past tense of “lie,” I want to say “laid” or “lied.” “Lay” just doesn’t sound like a past tense verb to me (nor does it to my friends and peers, it seems.)
(And the “nobody cares” is not meant to be absolutely literal.)
And the OP misses on the the thread title I think. ( Groom Failsd Math Test – Wedding Off
If this story is true, I like it.
I accidently hit both the “s” and “d” keys at the same time (they’re adjacent on the keyboard) and didn’t notice until I’d posted.
So sue me. Just don’t marry me.
I think both bride and groom are better for it. The woman shouldn’t marry a man who can’t do basic arithmetic, and the man shouldn’t marry a woman who’d ditch a marriage for random reasons.
When you’re in an arranged marriage, being lied to about the other person’s education is not a “random reason.” It’s fraud.
This story sounds awfully fishy to me…something just doesn’t add up…
Perhaps some day…
“Before we get married, you must answer this question: Is this dress white and gold, or blue and black?”
You are so negative.
I’ve known a few smart, educated people who couldn’t have done simple arithmetic on their wedding day, either.
Not really. I think the groom was a prime candidate for a relationship.
If Indian marriages are indeed akin to business propositions (a claim I am qualified to neither support nor dispute), shouldn’t the groom’s lack of a basic grasp of math had come out well before the wedding. As in, the bride’s father asks, “Hey, Rajesh: what is 15 + 6”?
A bride’s family is traditionally at a social disadvantage and so sharp negotiation might not have been an option.
A father’s interests might not align perfectly with a bride’s interests. Note. That the bride’s family was still trying to persuade her to go through with it.
The real story here is not that a wedding was foiled by an arithmetic problem but that an unmarried teenaged girl felt enough confidence and strength and was able to use her wits to get out of a marriage she didn’t want to go through with, even while her family wanted her to.
What will be an even better story is if this girl is able to live her life without being punished by her society for doing this and then if she is able to—if she wants—enter into a relationship with a different person in the future, on her own terms, whether or not it’s an arranged match.
She should have asked him for the difference between “its” and “it’s”.