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saltcured 60 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Wit, unker, Git: The lost medieval pronouns of Eng...

What's interesting is you may reply, "hey, how are you?", and lots of people may be satisfied with that. Neither party actually answers how they are, yet the handshake is complete.

macintux 60 days ago [–]

I refuse out of principle, but agree, that works.

I just use "Howdy".

ptmcc 60 days ago | [–]

Which is short for "How do you do?"

macintux 60 days ago | | [–]

Good point! I guess my principles only extend so far.

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