Thursday, September 03, 2009

How strange....

When someone ask/greet you "How are you!" or "What's up!" - its really an exclamation mark and not a question mark.
You don't have to reply in detail or with much obligation to elaborate. Just say "Good." You don't have to mean it.

Sometimes, I do wonder why people even bother asking at all.

4 comments:

GiGoLo said...

hows it going joey ?!?!?!?!

muahahahahaahaha ....

Ah Kiong said...

good good :P

said...

the engerish cher come and explain.

tat really depends if you see the clause as:

a. a statement (requires no respond)
b. a question (requires an answer)
c. a directive (requires a respond)

because u saw it as a directive, you responded. and it upsets you to respond to a directive. but if you saw it as a statement, you'd probably ignore it.

note: no response is also a respond.

as you can see im so caught up with these, i'd tot i'll call after my test : )

Ah Kiong said...

this posting isn't a personal encounter. am not upset la

i just heard this over the radio - u knw which station - they were kinda talking abt this. So i tot i will blog it.


But i do wonder why some people will greet that way.