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

--- Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> This is a question mainly to L1 speakers of English:
> how is the idiom
> 'to drop s.o. a line' perceived by native speakers?
> Does it sound
> cool?  Or overly cool?  What is the register and
> what is the situation
> to use it and when should one not use it?
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I remember hearing "Drop me a line" when I was a kd in
the 1950's so it's not new enough to be "cool".

Here are some examples of "drop me a line" (or "drop
us a line") on web pages that I just Googled. None of
them seems at all odd or out of place to my L1 English
sepaking ears.

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/stevecarper/mail.htm

http://www.ogdenregional.com/CustomPage.asp?guidCustomContentID={18DC6332-40A2-11D4-A2E1-00508B62BE1F}

http://tap.stanford.edu/

http://pages.zdnet.com/gbarraco/MerwarthForCouncil/id5.html

http://www.lakemichigancollege.edu/foundation/Alumni/Dropusaline.html

hope this helps.

--gary