pet peeves

[victor steinbok]

Just wanted to add a comment on one of the items Lynne included in the post.

"I'm good" does not mean the same thing as "I'm well". Arguably, "I'm good"
is more common as a response to an offer of assistance ("Would you like a
refill?" "No, I'm good.") than a response to a question of state of
well-being. I don't think "I'm well" would work in this situation,
irrespectively of whether it is an Americanism or not. (Is it more being
slang than Americanism that ticks people off?)

VS-)

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Lynne Murphy <m.l.murphy at sussex.ac.uk>wrote:

>
> Another plug for my own blog (but it also links to other commentators on
> it):
>
> <
> http://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2011/07/anti-americanismism.html
> >
>
> I've replied to the principle of the thing and the first 25 items--the next
> 25 to come after I've finished reading student work.  Which is, of course,
> much better researched than the BBC piece!
>

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