“How are you doing?”
Fair to midland?.
“How are you doing?”
Fair to midland?.
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Point out that the ‘answer’ should be ‘fair to middling’ and you get a whole lot of “like man, ya know etc..etc..”.
On the rare, very rare, occasion that I will answer a text, I make sure that all my commas and question marks are in place. Same as IM ... Now, that drives ‘em crazy.
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On the use of the word “A”, I believe it was R Limbaugh that (I heard) explained one can tell when one is reading something because they tend to pronounce ‘A’ in a sentence as “A” while in ‘normal’ conversation “A” usually comes out as ‘auh - uh’.
Normal speak....I went to get ‘uh’ drink of water.
Reading teleprompter (ha) I went to get “A” drink of water.