Re: OT: English: 'Drop me a line'

Hi Henrik,

First let me say that this strikes me as incredibly bizarre.  That is,
was this just unprompted?  I can't imagine someone sending me
an e-mail about my website about my created languages and
telling me to change the content because of how that viewer
perceived it.  In your case, it might be different, because English
is an L2, but I've always found your English more than comprehensible.
Plus, it's not like it's your responsibility to convey the information
you want to convey: (a) in English at all, or (b) in a register of
English that I find acceptable.  That's just ridiculous.

Having said that, if you send us a link to exactly where you use
the phrase "drop me a line" (which I'm sure I've seen on L1
English speakers websites, conlang or non), I and other English
L1 speakers can take a look at it, and see what possibly this
person is responding to.  Out of context, I can't really tell you.
"Drop me a line", however, doesn't strike me as informal enough
to be "cool".  Professors use it all the time, where I'm from.

-David
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