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

Henrik Theiling wrote:
>
> 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?
Aside from one's PhD dissertation or a treatise on nuclear physics etc., I
can't think of a single instance where it would be
inappropriate............Neither cool nor un-cool, simply familiar and
friendly. What are the alternatives? "Post an epistle to me" ? "Send me a
letter/email" ?

Drop Pedanto a line telling him/her/it to go..........never mind :-)))

You, like 99.999...% of L2 Engl. users on this list, have nothing to worry
about.  (It's the native speakers we have to worry about)