Like A Duck to Ask [email protected] • 2 years agoEuropeans, what is something that Americans have/do that makes no sense to you?message-square582fedilinkarrow-up1254
arrow-up1254message-squareEuropeans, what is something that Americans have/do that makes no sense to you?Like A Duck to Ask [email protected] • 2 years agomessage-square582fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•2 years agoThat you greet by saying how are you doing, but you arent always expected to answer it!?!?!?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink8•2 years agoDon’t some British do this as well, with “you all right?”
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•2 years agoBritish people are excluded, they drive on the right side /s (I am not familiar with this btw)
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•2 years agoSo do the Irish, with their “hey haysegoyen” Took me weeks to figure out I wasn’t supposed to answer
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish7•2 years agoYes. The correct answer is “Not too bad, you?” and after they’ve also not answered truthfully the conversation may begin.
minus-square@[email protected]MlinkfedilinkEnglish3•2 years agoLol. First time someone asked me this in the UK, I replied with “Is that a question I’m actually supposed to answer, or just a different kind of hello?” The look on their face was classic.
That you greet by saying how are you doing, but you arent always expected to answer it!?!?!?
Don’t some British do this as well, with “you all right?”
British people are excluded, they drive on the right side /s
(I am not familiar with this btw)
So do the Irish, with their “hey haysegoyen”
Took me weeks to figure out I wasn’t supposed to answer
Yes. The correct answer is “Not too bad, you?” and after they’ve also not answered truthfully the conversation may begin.
Lol. First time someone asked me this in the UK, I replied with “Is that a question I’m actually supposed to answer, or just a different kind of hello?” The look on their face was classic.