Your edit to one of my posts

Hello,

You changed an instance of "What say you?" to "What do you say?" in one of my posts. "What say you?" is how I normally say it and is a perfectly fine way of saying it; if I wanted to say it differently, I would have said "What do you think?" and not "What do you say?".

I appreciate your looking out for others, but please don't do stuff like that unless you're absolutely sure you know what you're changing is wrong.

I am sorry,

I certainly did not mean to interfere with your style. What I read, when I read it, was a common typing error (in my perception) and I "corrected" it despite the fact that I usually to not "correct" personal statements of others.

Of course "What say you?" can be said in some English speaking communities. As an utterance or a direct quotation of one, it had triggered my inner automatism saying: "you must not write that" but I likely had not altered it. Please accept my apology. I learned writing English in a conservative British dominated environment when I was young. I am over 60 now. Teachers told us that we MUST write questions using "to do" always, absolutely no matter how they are uttered. We learned that, even in a word protocol of a speech, we have to write utterances like "What say you?" as "What do you say?", and we were allowed to loudly re-read it as "What say you?" if we knew positively from listening that it had been said so. As a language scientist, that I became meanwhile, I am far from supporting what we were taught, but it occasionaly bleeds through. Sorry again.