• @grue
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    128 months ago

    No, no, he had it right the first time: the sorts of people who want to look in your windows really do want to reign, like an autocrat.

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    (I’m just riffing off your comment to make a point. I don’t actually think the person was that clever and agree it was a typo.)

    • Gabe BellOP
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      8 months ago

      I thought it was “free reign” but reign as in the way you reign a horse – you give your horse “free reign” to do as it wishes.

      EDIT : huh. Turns out I am right, but you “rein” a horse not “reign”. Derp!

        • Gabe BellOP
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          28 months ago

          (grin) Yeah – I realised that after I wrote it.

          As unbelievable as it sounds I had only ever heard it said – I’d never seen it written down. (Or if I have I don’t remember seeing it written down – must have been twenty, thirty years ago.) I am not a horse person, so I don’t deal with vocab relating to horses all that often.

          Just one of those things I guess.

          • Timwi
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            48 months ago

            Don’t be too hard on yourself. English spelling is not exactly cooperative.

            • @harmsy
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              28 months ago

              A little too ironic, and yeah I really do think.