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- From: hugh@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Hugh Graham)
- Subject: Re: Back from the UK
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 23:51:29 GMT
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- (Graham Toal) writes:
- > (Ralph Yozzo) writes:
- >:(or the British "How do you do?")
- >
- >I trust our American readers are aware that the correct response to 'how do
- >you do.' is another 'how do you you do.' It's not a question, and anyone
- >who answers 'very well thank you' is immediately marked as beyond the pale.
- >
-
- Goodbye derives from "God be with you". Have a nice day could eventually
- contract to, er, something else. Imagine if someone kept suggesting
- that God should be with you. Yeeeech. Give me "have a nice day" anytime.
- And "How do you do" is often "How d'you do" which calls for no reply other than
- to repeat the phrase. Maybe the American "How's it going" or "What's up"
- or any other such slightly annoying greeting should be used in the same manner.
- That's what I do.
-
- Ecoutez et repetez.
-
- "Hey, what's up dude?"
- "Hey, what's up yourself?"
-
- Lovely n'est pas?
-
- Hugh
- hugh@lamar.colostate.edu
- Free at last! Free at last!
-