@der_Jeff Oh, hah, it also works here if “spend on” rather than “spend to”, so a smaller and easier mess-up of mismatching the preposition used with a phrasal verb. // @lechindianer
@der_Jeff No, totally. I’m saying I’m pretty sure I didn’t even hiccup reading it because my brain rewrote “to” to “on” and it worked. So your jumping to IDing a false friend was surprising and instructive. :) // @lechindianer
@der_Jeff Actually gotta be past based on “did”. Absent that, present progressive “I’m spending” would also work, but not bare present. // @lechindianer
@lechindianer@der_Jeff And of course natural command of written language is a separate skill from spoken, as any comments thread on a popular press article should confirm. ;)