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Backseat Driver

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19. Question everything, LOL!
Tue Jul 21, 2020, 10:53 AM
Jul 2020

Here's the rules on how to use question marks; be sure to also view the link at the very end regarding terminal punctuation. I believe you used the question mark appropriately in your post because "me" is italicized as the specific word to be acted upon as the suggested action of the whole sentence.

https://www.thepunctuationguide.com/question-mark.html

BTW, there are rules about the how and when to use the idiomatic "how about" as well.

https://www.espressoenglish.net/difference-between-how-about-and-what-about/

Just between you and me, lol, just because you hear it more and more often does not magically turn using I into proper usage in that instance.

Here's a question for You, the All Powerful I." Are you part of the selfish "ME" generation that wants to abandon punctuation and grammar rules as a separatist, elite power play? Me bows to your infinite superiority in case you name me as a clandestine member of the grammar police.

I'm really just suggesting resources to back up correct usage of the question mark and asking other questions as a friend because I was once told not to use "I seen" because it was bad grammar. That friend said I'd forever be marked as uneducated. Forever after that scolding, I winced whenever I heard it used by others, among many other tabboo ways to speak; hence, my bias grows stronger about people in the same way suggested by that friend and yet most feel it rude to point out others' faults directly to their face, so I digress about whether or not you've sinned by mere suggestion of eliminating "me" from the English language, LOL! Actually, I think I'd figure out your meaning with whichever proper noun or pronoun you choose to converse or put to paper. There are far more important issues that need to be resolved where two or three gather together.

That's between you and I [View all] Goodheart Jul 2020 OP
Drives me crazy too. Mossfern Jul 2020 #1
I'm old and school was a long time ago (I'm talking b&w TV!) Alliepoo Jul 2020 #2
The American rule is that the question mark goes inside the quotation marks Sanity Claws Jul 2020 #5
This is incorrect wackadoo wabbit Jul 2020 #26
Here's something more authoritative than my personal knowledge wackadoo wabbit Jul 2020 #28
The problem is, English is an organic language and writing styles vary by which one used. TheBlackAdder Jul 2020 #32
It depends. The mark goes after the question, whatever the question is... TreasonousBastard Jul 2020 #6
I was taught that too. Mossfern Jul 2020 #8
It certainly bugs me. Laelth Jul 2020 #3
US-style punctuation goes by the logic of the statement, EXCEPT... Foolacious Jul 2020 #4
That doesn't make much sense. Goodheart Jul 2020 #9
Yes, that's what I'm saying. Foolacious Jul 2020 #24
Yet another reason I should move to Canada. :) Goodheart Jul 2020 #25
I use programmers' punctation rules. eppur_se_muova Jul 2020 #7
There you go! Goodheart Jul 2020 #11
Ah, yes-- we no longer teach students sentence diagramming, so they have no idea about... TreasonousBastard Jul 2020 #10
Sentence diagramming was good stuff, really. Goodheart Jul 2020 #12
I actually enjoyed it, and you learned a lot about language. TreasonousBastard Jul 2020 #13
We should probably retire "fewer" along with it. GoCubsGo Jul 2020 #14
"Less" where "fewer" should be used drives me NUTS! Goodheart Jul 2020 #15
While I'm at it, I keep hearing about trump's "cognitive test". Goodheart Jul 2020 #16
I hate it DavidDvorkin Jul 2020 #17
No, it's not wackadoo wabbit Jul 2020 #29
Sorry, you're right DavidDvorkin Jul 2020 #30
No worries wackadoo wabbit Jul 2020 #31
Your punctuation is correct. ananda Jul 2020 #18
Question everything, LOL! Backseat Driver Jul 2020 #19
At this point I'm wondering why "I" and "me" ever became separate words in the first place. Goodheart Jul 2020 #21
Please yellowwoodII Jul 2020 #35
Right you are! Mea Culpa Backseat Driver Jul 2020 #39
I'm with you! mantis49 Jul 2020 #20
Drives me NUTS Shanti Mama Jul 2020 #22
Yes, I wince when I read or hear it Leith Jul 2020 #23
i've had to let go of the "begs the question" vs. "raises the question" irritation 0rganism Jul 2020 #27
No, the question mark belongs outside the quotation marks in that sentence, just as you have it. tblue37 Jul 2020 #33
A lot of that makes no sense. Goodheart Jul 2020 #36
The British use logical punctuation. The U.S. insists on it exceptionalism. nt tblue37 Jul 2020 #37
It drives me crazy, too DFW Jul 2020 #34
I once had a dangling participle but the doctor cut it off I. panader0 Jul 2020 #38
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