pet peeves

[Dan Goncharoff]

"I'm good" is a typical response to "How ya doin'?" "I'm doin' good" would
be less common, but heard often enough.

"I'm well" might be an answer to a question about health, whether implicit
or direct, but is not likely to be used in response to a question about
one's general state of being.

Just my 2p...
DanG


On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 11:42 AM, victor steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> Just wanted to add a comment on one of the items Lynne included in the
> post.
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> "I'm good" does not mean the same thing as "I'm well". Arguably, "I'm good"
> is more common as a response to an offer of assistance ("Would you like a
> refill?" "No, I'm good.") than a response to a question of state of
> well-being. I don't think "I'm well" would work in this situation,
> irrespectively of whether it is an Americanism or not. (Is it more being
> slang than Americanism that ticks people off?)
>
> VS-)
>
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Lynne Murphy <m.l.murphy at sussex.ac.uk
> >wrote:
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> > Another plug for my own blog (but it also links to other commentators on
> > it):
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> http://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2011/07/anti-americanismism.html
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> >
> > I've replied to the principle of the thing and the first 25 items--the
> next
> > 25 to come after I've finished reading student work.  Which is, of
> course,
> > much better researched than the BBC piece!
> >
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