What will you say? If some person says " How are you ?"
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I cannot cope with inane small talk so usually go with something like the following; Fair to middlin' Splendid Reasonable Moist Adequate and so on. My usual response to being greeted with "Morning" when get to the office is "Yes, yes it is". To be honest I irritate myself most days.
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not too bad feeling good Same old Same as usual Can't complain Not so good I've seen better days This will be my other replies if they ask How are you?
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Feel like sh!t.
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All's well.
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Really? it seems extremely dangerous, as your suggestion Should they ask "How do you do?", the correct response is to say "How do you do?" back is bound to loop forever. :wtf:
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Is "How do you do?" still in use?
Yes, but we actually say "How d'y'do". This only applies to the English BTW, it confuses the hell out of the Americans. USians assume that we are just like them (after all the US was founded by the British for the most part and we sort of have the same language). Then they fall foul of the (often highly complex) social norms that we are all used to when they come to the UK. To a non-european (and to many European) UKian culture is probably every bit a odd as Japanese culture is to us. This book Watching The English[^] helped my wife explain a lot of my behaviour. The worst thing is that in the UK we think that we are normal, and everyone else is odd an inexplicable (comes from living on an island I suppose) :-).
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Depends on how I am at the time.
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All's well.
Regards, Hiren. Microsoft Dynamics CRM "A SQL query goes into a bar, walks up to two tables and asks, "Can I join you?", "yes naturally""
Hiren Solanki wrote:
All's well.
Nope. It's "AHL IS VELL!" in an Indian accent. That's a real winner.
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"I am well, how are you" is the correct response. Should they ask "How do you do?", the correct response is to say "How do you do?" back.
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Dalek Dave wrote:
"I am well, how are you" is the correct response.
Says who? Mrs Dullpedant book of English Elocution published in 1932? Bollocks. The correct response is anything you damn well like and commonly is 'mustnt grumble', or, 'OK', or, 'not too bad'. Follwed by 'and you'? 'hows it hanging' is a more common greeting aswell, or 'hows it going' or 'hows life' or 'what do ya know' etc etc etc.
"It is a remarkable fact that despite the worldwide expenditure of perhaps US$50 billion since 1990, and the efforts of tens of thousands of scientists worldwide, no human climate signal has yet been detected that is distinct from natural variation." Bob Carter, Research Professor of Geology, James Cook University, Townsville
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Really? it seems extremely dangerous, as your suggestion Should they ask "How do you do?", the correct response is to say "How do you do?" back is bound to loop forever. :wtf:
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The second "How do you do?" acts like a null on a null terminate string, that's why the rest of the conversation is so tense, formally it has stopped :-)
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The second "How do you do?" acts like a null on a null terminate string, that's why the rest of the conversation is so tense, formally it has stopped :-)
Sort of a cross between Lawrence of Arabia and Dilbert.[^]
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Yes, but we actually say "How d'y'do". This only applies to the English BTW, it confuses the hell out of the Americans. USians assume that we are just like them (after all the US was founded by the British for the most part and we sort of have the same language). Then they fall foul of the (often highly complex) social norms that we are all used to when they come to the UK. To a non-european (and to many European) UKian culture is probably every bit a odd as Japanese culture is to us. This book Watching The English[^] helped my wife explain a lot of my behaviour. The worst thing is that in the UK we think that we are normal, and everyone else is odd an inexplicable (comes from living on an island I suppose) :-).
Sort of a cross between Lawrence of Arabia and Dilbert.[^]
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The worst thing is that in the UK we think that we are normal, and everyone else is odd an inexplicable
That is because we are normal and the rest of the world are weird!
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"I am well, how are you" is the correct response. Should they ask "How do you do?", the correct response is to say "How do you do?" back.
------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC League Table Link CCC Link[^]
Aah, so it's a colonial hangover when two Saffers greet each other with "Howzit!", neither really asking a question despite "howzit" being a badly contacted "how is it [with you]?", with "it" being "life in general".
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Hiren Solanki wrote:
All's well.
Nope. It's "AHL IS VELL!" in an Indian accent. That's a real winner.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
AHLL IZJJ VELL in Madhya Pradeshi accent. ALL IS BHELL in Bengali accent. OOLL IS WELL in Malayali accent (hey Nish :rolleyes: ) this can go on, you know? :)
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Dalek Dave wrote:
"I am well, how are you" is the correct response.
Says who? Mrs Dullpedant book of English Elocution published in 1932? Bollocks. The correct response is anything you damn well like and commonly is 'mustnt grumble', or, 'OK', or, 'not too bad'. Follwed by 'and you'? 'hows it hanging' is a more common greeting aswell, or 'hows it going' or 'hows life' or 'what do ya know' etc etc etc.
"It is a remarkable fact that despite the worldwide expenditure of perhaps US$50 billion since 1990, and the efforts of tens of thousands of scientists worldwide, no human climate signal has yet been detected that is distinct from natural variation." Bob Carter, Research Professor of Geology, James Cook University, Townsville
fat_boy wrote:
Says who? Mrs Dullpedant book of English Elocution published in 1932?
No, says the social mores and correct usage of polite enquiry. But I suppose that you were never taught etiquette.
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Dalek Dave wrote:
"I am well, how are you" is the correct response.
Says who? Mrs Dullpedant book of English Elocution published in 1932? Bollocks. The correct response is anything you damn well like and commonly is 'mustnt grumble', or, 'OK', or, 'not too bad'. Follwed by 'and you'? 'hows it hanging' is a more common greeting aswell, or 'hows it going' or 'hows life' or 'what do ya know' etc etc etc.
"It is a remarkable fact that despite the worldwide expenditure of perhaps US$50 billion since 1990, and the efforts of tens of thousands of scientists worldwide, no human climate signal has yet been detected that is distinct from natural variation." Bob Carter, Research Professor of Geology, James Cook University, Townsville
fat_boy wrote:
Says who? Mrs Dullpedant book of English Elocution published in 1932?
You've misread DD's post the correct answer to "Hello, how are you?" might be this ("I'm well, how are you"or "musn't grumble, and you?" or "well, and you?" etc). If someone asks "How do you do?" it's a formalism, the correct response is "How do you do back". If you actually answer the question, the person talking to you will peg you pretty low in the social scale (and the sort of person who ask that question will do this) or put it down to being foreign. You forget exactly how hidebound and class-concious English society still is.
fat_boy wrote:
'hows it hanging' is a more common greeting aswell
Where the 'hood? Have you ever heard anyone from the UK say that (except ironically)?
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yu-jian wrote:
Besides "Fine, Thank you " Is there anyother answer?
"Screw you, go away. I don't ever want to see you again." can be an answer too. :laugh:
It was ever thus, the Neophiles will always rush out and get 'The Latest Thing' at a high price and with all the inherent faults - Dalek Dave.
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AHLL IZJJ VELL in Madhya Pradeshi accent. ALL IS BHELL in Bengali accent. OOLL IS WELL in Malayali accent (hey Nish :rolleyes: ) this can go on, you know? :)
It was ever thus, the Neophiles will always rush out and get 'The Latest Thing' at a high price and with all the inherent faults - Dalek Dave.
Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:
this can go on, you know?
Nah. Three idiots is plenty.
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fat_boy wrote:
Says who? Mrs Dullpedant book of English Elocution published in 1932?
No, says the social mores and correct usage of polite enquiry. But I suppose that you were never taught etiquette.
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Good manners have nothing to do with etiquete or social mores but everything to do with making people feel at ease. Using very formal greetings like these is therefore bad mannered. This is the big problem in the UK. The so called 'how to speak and behave' malaise left over from some kind of assumed Victorian morality or set of standards. Its bull. Complete utter bull and should be abandoned. Speak and act normally for christs sake.
"It is a remarkable fact that despite the worldwide expenditure of perhaps US$50 billion since 1990, and the efforts of tens of thousands of scientists worldwide, no human climate signal has yet been detected that is distinct from natural variation." Bob Carter, Research Professor of Geology, James Cook University, Townsville