Like A Duck@programming.dev to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 10 months agoEuropeans, what is something that Americans have/do that makes no sense to you?message-squaremessage-square600fedilinkarrow-up1268arrow-down128
arrow-up1240arrow-down1message-squareEuropeans, what is something that Americans have/do that makes no sense to you?Like A Duck@programming.dev to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 10 months agomessage-square600fedilink
minus-squareDaefsdeda@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·10 months agoThat you greet by saying how are you doing, but you arent always expected to answer it!?!?!?
minus-squareButWhatDoesItAllMean@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up9·10 months agoDon’t some British do this as well, with “you all right?”
minus-squaremerridew@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·10 months agoYes. The correct answer is “Not too bad, you?” and after they’ve also not answered truthfully the conversation may begin.
minus-squareBluetreefrog@lemmy.worldMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·10 months 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.
minus-squareDraghetta@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4·10 months agoSo do the Irish, with their “hey haysegoyen” Took me weeks to figure out I wasn’t supposed to answer
minus-squarebravesirrbn ☑️@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·10 months agoIrish greetings are the best. My fav is “What’s the story?”
minus-squareDaefsdeda@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·10 months agoBritish people are excluded, they drive on the right side /s (I am not familiar with this btw)
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?”
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.
So do the Irish, with their “hey haysegoyen”
Took me weeks to figure out I wasn’t supposed to answer
Irish greetings are the best. My fav is “What’s the story?”
British people are excluded, they drive on the right side /s
(I am not familiar with this btw)