Is it correct to say you too?

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Please I want to know what is the correct response to, you are driving me crazy. Should I say you too, so are you or you are too?

Deadrat · Accepted Answer

I wouldn't exactly call it a drive.  It's more of short putt.

Leonline · Answer

I don't understand.

Deadrat · Answer

I'm sorry. I shouldn't inflict my humor on the forum. Jokes in a language you're learning are hard to understand.

One meaning of the word "drive" is to force in a particular direction. Thus we have the idiom "you're driving me crazy," meaning you are forcing me into craziness, a state of intense mental distraction.

A "drive" in the game of golf is a long shot, usually over 250 yards. The same meaning, forcing in a particular direction, applies. But here the force is literal and is applied by the golfer with a golf club called (naturally) a "driver." A short shot to get the golf ball in the cup is called a "putt," and it may be a few inches to a few feet.

So when you say to me "You're driving me crazy," and I respond "It's not a drive," I mean it's not a long way for you to go from being rational to being crazy. When I continue "It's a short putt," I mean that in fact, the distance between you and being crazy is very short.

In other words, don't blame me; you're close to being crazy anyway.

Fivejedjon · Answer

deadratokes in a language you're learning are hard to understand.

Sometimes jokes in one's own language aren't all that easy.

CalifJim · Answer

Leonline... the correct response to "You are driving me crazy".

You're driving me crazy, too.
The feeling is mutual.

LeonlineShould I say you too, so are you or you are too?

No. Those are too ambiguous.

CJ

Leonline · Answer

Thanks.

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