# Posting styles you hate **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 5, 2011, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-styles-you-hate/601999 "2011-11-05T22:13:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2011, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-styles-you-hate/601999/201 "2011-11-16T19:30:35Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > These sound weird. These do not: > > How would you rather we say them? Give to me a beer? Give me a beer, please? Grammatically, it should be “give a beer to me”. The beer is what is being given, not me. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2011, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-styles-you-hate/601999/202 "2011-11-16T19:32:56Z")
If someone said “Give a beer to me” I would assume the person is from France, or some other loser country, and hasn’t yet learned how to speak English the way normal people do. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2011, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-styles-you-hate/601999/203 "2011-11-16T19:35:56Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Grammatically, it should be “give a beer to me”. The beer is what is being given, not me. “Give me a beer” is exactly as grammatical as “Give a beer to me.” In English, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Ostrya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/35a633/32.png) [@Ostrya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ostrya)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2011, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-styles-you-hate/601999/204 "2011-11-16T20:50:56Z")
Hopefully we can agree soon, I’d kinda like to open these beers. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2011, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-styles-you-hate/601999/205 "2011-11-16T20:59:32Z")
We’ll go with the answer provided by **silenus** : Give me two beers. (Bangs gavel) ---
**Author:** ![brittekland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@brittekland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brittekland)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2011, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-styles-you-hate/601999/206 "2011-11-16T21:05:54Z")
Wish you were beer. ---
**Author:** ![Erdosain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/erdosain/32/7284_2.png) [@Erdosain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erdosain)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2011, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-styles-you-hate/601999/207 "2011-11-16T21:16:23Z")
I’m pretty sure it’s just, “Beer me.” As in, “Tuna, beer me that pen.” ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2011, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-styles-you-hate/601999/208 "2011-11-16T22:53:07Z")
Beer! ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2011, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-styles-you-hate/601999/209 "2011-11-16T22:58:30Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > “Give me a beer” is exactly as grammatical as “Give a beer to me.” In English, anyway. “Drive me to the car” and “drive the car to me” have two separate meanings. Or consider the old joke: “Call me a taxi.” “Okay, you’re a taxi.” Grammatically, it should be “call a taxi for me” but we figure out the intent of “call me a taxi” or “give me a beer” from the context. But realistically, it’s like arguing people should say “It is I” rather than “It’s me”. The ungrammatical line has become familiar and the correct construction sounds strange. ---
**Author:** ![Indygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@Indygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indygrrl)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2011, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-styles-you-hate/601999/210 "2011-11-16T23:27:36Z")
Just thought of the one I hate the most…when people refer to their husband as DH, or their daughter as DD, or son as DS…the D stands for “dear.” Barf. Your dear husband? Is that really necessary? By the fact that you married him we can assume he’s “dear” to you, but calling him that on a messageboard is excessively cutesy and annoying as shit. ---
**Author:** ![Capitaine\_Zombie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@Capitaine\_Zombie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capitaine_Zombie)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-styles-you-hate/601999/211 "2011-11-17T16:15:57Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > If someone said “Give a beer to me” I would assume the person is from France, or some other loser country, and hasn’t yet learned how to speak English the way normal people do. Ta, a Frenchman would just snap his fingers. Dont expect him to waste any spit on you troglodytes. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-styles-you-hate/601999/212 "2011-11-17T16:50:26Z")
I meant “loser country” with love. ---
**Author:** ![Prelude\_to\_Fascination](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Prelude\_to\_Fascination](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prelude_to_Fascination)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-styles-you-hate/601999/213 "2011-11-17T17:10:41Z")
> [@Indygrrl](#): > > Just thought of the one I hate the most…when people refer to their husband as DH, or their daughter as DD, or son as DS…the D stands for “dear.” Barf. Your dear husband? Is that really necessary? By the fact that you married him we can assume he’s “dear” to you, but calling him that on a messageboard is excessively cutesy and annoying as shit. Or conversely, starting a post or email with “Dear All”. It’s simultaneously familiar and impersonal. I get you’re including everyone (hence the “all,”) but to me it’s contradictory. “Dear” should be reserved for singling someone out (“Dear Uncle Bob”), not addressing a group of people. ---
**Author:** ![Capitaine\_Zombie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@Capitaine\_Zombie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capitaine_Zombie)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-styles-you-hate/601999/214 "2011-11-17T21:03:56Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > I meant “loser country” with love. I’m petitioning for that to become our motto. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-styles-you-hate/601999/215 "2011-11-17T21:34:55Z")
Is that better than “cheese-eating surrender monkeys”? ---
**Author:** ![Capitaine\_Zombie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@Capitaine\_Zombie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capitaine_Zombie)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-styles-you-hate/601999/216 "2011-11-17T22:11:28Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > Is that better than “cheese-eating surrender monkeys”? Yup. It is funny. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-styles-you-hate/601999/217 "2011-11-17T23:08:09Z")
Really? “Loser country” is funnier than “cheese-eating surrender monkeys”? Now I’m starting to wonder whether that whole Jerry Lewis urban legend is true after all. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2011, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-styles-you-hate/601999/218 "2011-11-18T03:29:01Z")
Yup. In the battle of Me vs. Actual Comedians, it’s pretty clear who’s funnier. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2011, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-styles-you-hate/601999/219 "2011-11-18T08:09:30Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > All the old “in jokes” that have been in use since the beginning of time (“Hi Opal!” “Once, for 20 minutes”, “Rio”, etc) They’re stale, they’re over-used, they’re no longer funny. Do something original, PLEASE. As a 99er (thankyoubiggirl), I can assure you that not all the “in jokes” are universally known and understood and therefore stale. “Hi, Opal!” I know and have known since forever. 20 minutes and Rio…? Nope, I got nuthin. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2011, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-styles-you-hate/601999/220 "2011-11-18T09:06:16Z")
> [@Stoid](#): > > 20 minutes and Rio…? Nope, I got nuthin. [Not many people know that…](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=283407) [AUGH, what is this 80’s song?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=296939) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-styles-you-hate/601999.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-styles-you-hate/601999.md?page=12)