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[–] Confidant6198@lemmy.ml 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I never understood why people just randomly ask “how are you?” if they don’t really care. By that point is just better not to talk.

[–] chumbalumber@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 6 months ago

In the UK at least, 'you alright?', shortened to 'right?' is just used as a greeting. In the same way that 'how are you doing' got shortened to 'howdy'. It's just another form of greeting or pleasantry.

If you're actually interested how someone is, you'll ask without the contraction ('are you alright?'), and with a different intonation.

I think that's a fairly reasonable way of doing conversation; I don't have a problem with it.