Comments on: How are you doing? http://anthropik.com/2005/04/how-are-you-doing/ se wo were fi na wosan kofa a yenki Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:37:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Jason Godesky http://anthropik.com/2005/04/how-are-you-doing/#comment-514 Jason Godesky Wed, 20 Apr 2005 18:10:06 +0000 http://anthropik.com/2005/04/how-are-you-doing/#comment-514 Sure, but that's a seperate issue from Michael's gripe. Rephrasing "How are you?" to "How goes it?" would not change the fact that an actual <em>answer</em> constitutes a major breach of social protocol. Sure, but that’s a seperate issue from Michael’s gripe. Rephrasing “How are you?” to “How goes it?” would not change the fact that an actual answer constitutes a major breach of social protocol.

]]> By: Dave Gude http://anthropik.com/2005/04/how-are-you-doing/#comment-513 Dave Gude Wed, 20 Apr 2005 16:53:09 +0000 http://anthropik.com/2005/04/how-are-you-doing/#comment-513 In the spirit of E-Prime, "How goes it?" works better for me as a greeting. Perhaps, as I suggested (or queried) in Giulliana's E-Prime post here, adopting E-Prime provides a good jumping off point for making our language more meaningful, and possibly advancing the "New" tribalism advocated here. What do you think about that? Cheers, Dave Gude In the spirit of E-Prime, “How goes it?” works better for me as a greeting.

Perhaps, as I suggested (or queried) in Giulliana’s E-Prime post here, adopting E-Prime provides a good jumping off point for making our language more meaningful, and possibly advancing the “New” tribalism advocated here. What do you think about that?

Cheers,

Dave Gude

]]> By: Giulianna Lamanna http://anthropik.com/2005/04/how-are-you-doing/#comment-511 Giulianna Lamanna Tue, 19 Apr 2005 02:11:11 +0000 http://anthropik.com/2005/04/how-are-you-doing/#comment-511 I would love to engage Mike in conversation. But I actually have this thing, soooo... I would love to engage Mike in conversation. But I actually have this thing, soooo…

]]> By: Jason Godesky http://anthropik.com/2005/04/how-are-you-doing/#comment-510 Jason Godesky Tue, 19 Apr 2005 01:47:16 +0000 http://anthropik.com/2005/04/how-are-you-doing/#comment-510 I don't think you'll be getting a lot of comments on this one, Mike.... Who would want to risk dreaded conversation, after all? I don’t think you’ll be getting a lot of comments on this one, Mike….

Who would want to risk dreaded conversation, after all?

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