Grammar pedants - help please.

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Dvorak Apr 2022 3:13pm, 26 Apr 2022 25,207 posts	0 Dvorak The not sleeping good, as in well, is nonetheless related to an issue of interpersonal morals/ethics? So perhaps the word is here bearing a polysemic freight?
sallykate Apr 2022 3:34pm, 26 Apr 2022 9,719 posts	0 sallykate When I lived in France I did a lot of "learning though use" of language. So when you're squashed in the back of a car with a load of other people and someone wants to check you're OK you don't say, "je suis bonne" unless you want them all to pretend to start eating you...
GordonG Apr 2022 3:54pm, 26 Apr 2022 9,067 posts	0 GordonG i completely agree that song lyrics have poetic licence, no probs with that. I think I'm just coming from the POV of someone who is constantly correcting his kids when they tell me that "yeah, I'm good". (And add to that list being in a restaurant when they ask the waiter "Can I get...". I will never stop telling them that no, they cannot get because they don't work there) / rant
Cerrertonia Apr 2022 4:17pm, 26 Apr 2022 16,309 posts	0 Cerrertonia Arguably, 'I am good' is correct English as good is an adjective being applied to the pronoun.
Cerrertonia Apr 2022 4:20pm, 26 Apr 2022 16,310 posts	0 Cerrertonia The song 'push it' by Salt'n'Pepa, which has the chorus/ refrain 'push it real good', would definitely not work if the lyric was changed to 'push it really well'
Dvorak Apr 2022 5:39pm, 26 Apr 2022 25,208 posts	0 Dvorak https://youtube.com/watch?v=sJkPCzUuV2Y Feel real good, y'all. Bangin'
LindsD Apr 2022 7:14pm, 26 Apr 2022 54,254 posts	0 LindsD Agree 100% Dio
Columba Apr 2022 9:01pm, 26 Apr 2022 21,725 posts	0 Columba There is a hymn, often sung at funerals (indeed, I was at a funeral today and it was sung) which annoys me twice in the first two lines. Which are: Oh Lord my God, when I in awesome wonder Consider all the worlds thy hand hast made...
larkim Apr 2022 9:13pm, 26 Apr 2022 17,735 posts	0 larkim Had that at our wedding...
ChrisHB Apr 2022 10:41pm, 26 Apr 2022 21,658 posts	0 ChrisHB I think your version is a shoddy one, Columba. I'm sure I'd have noticed what you've quoted. Sure it's usually 'O' rather than 'Oh', and either 'hands have' or 'hand hath'.