Em oi! #360: Everyone is Wrong on the Internets

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Filing this under PE145 .L86 2012 for English philology and language—Anglo-Saxon. Old English—Language—Grammar—Orthography and spelling.

I feel I would be remiss in posting this without linking to these two things:

Alphabet by Randall Munroe.
Blackadder.

Today at yoga class (I will write about yoga more generally at some other point), the teacher was giving me a lot of corrections. Other teachers rarely give me corrections, so this was bothersome. Finally he came around, as I was doing downward facing dog and said, “Can you straighten your legs?”

Me: “No.”

Maybe I said it with more force than necessary, because he said, “Are you okay?”

I assured him that I was. He didn’t bother me for the rest of class.

The first lesson is: Sometimes corrections can be helpful. Don’t be too closed off to them.

The second lesson is: Don’t try to touch your toes/straighten your legs in down dog if you run 50 miles per week. It will only lead to (hamstring) pain. And as a corrolary, stick up for yourself when people try to make you do that stuff.