Wax in my grammar ear – or someone else’s?
Suddenly this started to bother me a lot. I surf to WordPress.com and on the front page it says: “Why Blog? All the cool kids are.”
That doesn’t make sense, does it? All the cool kids are blogs? Is this correct language in some young and hip native-English speaker sort of way that is designed to baffle the non-natives, or should it in fact be “All the cool kids do.”? In my mind, ‘are’ requires a gerund: “Why should I be blogging? All the cool kids are!”
There isn’t (luckily?) a “Click here to nitpick” link on the site, so I’ll just complain about it here. 
Well, when you change it to “why should I be blogging”, then “all the cool kids are [blogging]” works. But “why blog” should be “all the cool kids do”. They obviously don’t have any editors who know the difference.
Ah, feels great to know I’m right!
Heh. A nitpicker after my own heart…
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