Nu Yawk "English": What The Heck?

I. Ozza filted:
[nq:1]I felt very badly about the slur. I could care less about otiose commas. I'm waiting on line for tickets. etc. What is the explanation? None of it makes sense.[/nq]
You got a problem with that?...r

What good is being an executive if you never get to execute anyone?

[nq:1]I felt very badly about the slur.[/nq]
That should be "I felt very bad about the slur."
[nq:1]I could care less about otiose commas.[/nq]
Lots of people say "I could care less" when they mean "I couldn't care less". No, I have no idea why they do it, but they do.
[nq:1]I'm waiting on line for tickets.[/nq]
Most Americans wait "in line", but New Yorkers tend to say "on lin

[nq:2]I felt very badly about the slur.[/nq]
[nq:1]That should be "I felt very bad about the slur."[/nq]
Yep. Replace "badly" with "awfully" and it's clearly that "badly" is wrongly.
[nq:2]I could care less about otiose commas.[/nq]
[nq:1]Lots of people say "I could care less" when they mean "I couldn't care less". No, I have no idea why they do it, but they do.[/nq]
We do it b

[nq:2]I felt very badly about the slur.[/nq]
[nq:1]That should be "I felt very bad about the slur."[/nq]
Right.
[nq:2]I could care less about otiose commas.[/nq]
[nq:1]Lots of people say "I could care less" when they mean "I couldn't care less". No, I have no idea why they do it, but they do.[/nq]
It started in the 50's or early 60's with "I could care less?" spoken as a questi

[nq:1]That should be "I felt very bad about the slur."[/nq]
It's just a bog-standard verb, sometimes with a (phrasal) particle added: "I'm queuing (up) for tickets."
Brits live longer and more fulfilled lives by using one word in place of three.
DC

BrE: "I'm queueing for tickets" (sometimes, in the plural, "We're queueing up for tickets"). Or "I'm in the queue for tickets."

I'm not at all sure about the spelling - "ueuei" looks odd, but any variation looks even odder. The MS spellchecker offers "queuing". NSOED allows either.
Alan Jones

[nq:2]That should be "I felt very bad about the slur." ... of the exact expression. Perhaps it's "I'm queued for tickets."[/nq]
[nq:1]It's just a bog-standard verb, sometimes with a (phrasal) particle added: "I'm queuing (up) for tickets." Brits live longer and more fulfilled lives by using one word in place of three.[/nq]
Some Brits use the words "waiting on" (other than regarding tables)

[nq:2]It's just a bog-standard verb, sometimes with a (phrasal) particle ... fulfilled lives by using one word in place of three.[/nq]
[nq:1]Some Brits use the words "waiting on" (other than regarding tables) to mean "waiting for".[/nq]
Works for the Robert E. Lee.
Jeff

"The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and p

[nq:2]It's just a bog-standard verb, sometimes with a (phrasal) particle ... fulfilled lives by using one word in place of three.[/nq]
[nq:1]Some Brits use the words "waiting on" (other than regarding tables) to mean "waiting for".[/nq]
That's as may be, but I have always associated it with AmE.

WCdnE

[nq:2]I felt very badly about the slur.[/nq]
[nq:1]That should be "I felt very bad about the slur."[/nq]
In the same area of ops. as "How are you?" "I'm good". Yuk.

Will.