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- Do you really answer How do you do? with How do you do?
It was probably more widespread in the past As far as I know, it is still de rigueur in certain circles; that is, when someone asks how do you do, you say it back; but it will now rarely be asked any more, and so the occasion for saying it back won't arise either Perhaps this shibboleth does not extend to America; I wonder how U and non-U
- What is the origin history of you do you (or do you)?
Another variation is "do you - cuz I'mma do me" The oldest reference to the phrase that I could find is from the song Do You by Funkmaster Flex (featuring DMX), from the album Volume IV, released on December 5, 2000 This could be a variation of the phrase "do your thing", which has been in use for at least a century
- Whats the origin of “yo”? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
In the Neapolitan dialect "guaglione" (pronounced guahl-YO-nay) signified a young man The chiefly unlettered immigrants shortened that to guahl-YO, which they pronounced whal-YO That was inevitably further shortened to yo The common greeting among young Italian-American males was "Hey, whal-YO!", and then simply, "Yo!" And so it remains today
- did you vs. do you - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
First of all, did is the past tense form of the verb to do (which is also used as an auxiliary verb to help form questions in English) When you say that you did something, you're talking about something that happened in the past Do is the present tense form of the verb to do It's used to talk about present tense situations
- word usage - How do you do? vs. How are you doing? - English Language . . .
Introductions are usually followed by a handshake and the words: ‘How do you do?’ to which the response is: ‘How do you do?’ Social graces and introductions (Debretts) Debrett's adds: With younger people and in more informal settings you may prefer: ‘Hello’ or even ‘Hi’ but resist adding: ‘Pleased to meet you ’
- “Do you have” vs “Have you got” - English Language Usage . . .
I found where you got the statistics: the Separated by a Common Language blog And one reason for the discrepancy with Google Ngrams is that "do you have" is rapidly gaining over "have you got" both in the US and the UK, and the British National Corpus was collected a decade or so earlier than the Corpus of Contemporary American English, and this time difference substantially increases the
- expressions - How do you do--what does it mean and when did most of . . .
"How do you do" is a simple greeting or salutation how do you do — a polite greeting that you can use when first introduced to someone A more modern variant would be, "How are you?" or "Nice to meet you " As for usage trends, NGrams can give us a small hint at when it began to phase out of style Note the decline between 1900 and 1920:
- meaning - Difference between where are you from and where do you . . .
It's tempting to take the position that there are absolute interpretations to all utterances However I'm inclined to see interpretation as a fluid process, where the interpretation of a question asked or answered takes on a rhetorical trajectory whereby the asker and respondent act and react in accordance with their interests at any given point in the interaction
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