Originally Posted by
seypat
Mods, realize that I put up the fishing info so the thread wouldn't flounder.
Originally Posted by
Trakhak
Tried and failed to resist posting the following joke-destroying pedantic correction (too many years as an editor correcting common misuses will do that):
"founder," not "flounder."
If you're going to be pedantic, you need to be correct;
flounder is an intransitive verb in this form.
seypat 's usage is just fine.