debate on "you did good"

[Pearsons, Enid]

Well, gosh, I didn't mean us!  (Easterners, too)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dennis R. Preston [mailto:preston at PILOT.MSU.EDU]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 9:35 AM
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: Re: debate on "you did good"
>
>
> Disappeared only if all Midwesterners over 60 except for me died in
> their sleep last night.
>
> dInIs
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> >Right.  But the standard answer to "How are you?" wasn't
> "I'm well," it was
> >"Fine," or "Fine, thank you."  And that seems to have disappeared.
> >
> >Enid Pearsons
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> >>  -----Original Message-----
> >>  From: Beverly Flanigan [mailto:flanigan at OAK.CATS.OHIOU.EDU]
> >>  Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 12:53 AM
> >>  To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> >>  Subject: Re: debate on "you did good"
> >>  The "I'm > good" reply in > the greeting adjacency pair
> is a bit more
> >recent, isn't it?
> >>  "I'm well" > never sounded right anyway, since the
> question isn't about
> >>  health but is > about "feeling good" (James Brown had it right).
> >>
>
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> Dennis R. Preston
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