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I was just looking atthis thread on the other board, great fun, but it reminded me of when I was a kid...

People would always, quite politely when meeting say "Helo, how do you do?"

I ALWAYS wanted to ask "Do what?", but never had the courage!


GreyArea

Why is it always "Good evening"? It's never "Good Oddening."

why is it why?

LOL! I'd never thought of that!

Ha, I know what you mean. In danish some people will say a phrase when they meet you that translate into something like 'And then?' It's kinda like 'What's up?' It means 'how are you' 'anything new' that kind of thing. It just annoys me big time, I will always, repeat always, repley: Then what?'

Someone once asked me "could you hop across the river for some more drinks?"
I thought to myself "not even a kangaroo could do that"
He should have said "could you walk over the bridge for some more drinks?"

LOL

I remember being asked once when I was young, when we were visiting my nan and were, apparently quite close to the house, "If we let you out here couold you walk?" - I said "Yes, I could, but I would probably get lost". For some reason everyone thought this was funny.....

Believe it or not, I can answer that. The greeting has to do with the time of day when sunlight and nightfall are about even so it is good evening.

If you replace "even" with "odd" it would technically be "Good Odding".

One of my friends invited me to "Pop 'round for a chat"

Popping a round is shooting someone. If I pop a round in him, even with an invitation, we will have a hard time chatting.

Litteral interpretation of speech...............VERY ASPIE!! !

It's like the very bad frog joke:

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Waiter, waiter, do you have frog's legs?
Yes
Then hop over the counter and get me some.

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I've thought about the total weirdness of our language from time to time but can't think of any examples right now

I remember when I was little, I always looked up whenever someone asked me "What's up?" and I look up and see nothing but the sky or the ceiling depending on where I'm at and I always said "Nothing." because there wasn't anything great up there. I always thoight people were asking me what was up and thinking there was seomthing interetsing I always looked up or they wouldn't ahve asked me to. So one day in school, I go outside after I got thru eating lunch and my school mates run up to me ask me "Hey beth what's up?' and I look up and say again "Nothing." But the same girl asks me it again and I say the same thing and she asks me it again so i figure she wanted me to say something else so I guessed "The sky?"
"What"s up?"
"Clouds."
"What's up"
"The birds?"
"What's up?"
"The Trees."
"What's up?"
"Top of buildings?"
Then this other girl says "She doesn't know what it means."
So finally katrina , the girl who kept asking me "what's up?" tells me it means what's happening, what am I doing and then she says "What's up?" again and this time I say "Walking and answering your question."


When I told my mother that story, she never knew I took that question literal but it explained to her why I was always looking up everytime she asked me it.


That same school year, this boy in my resource room asked me "How's it hanging?" and I get confused because i coudln't figure out what was hanging so i said "Nothing." But he asked me it again but I got upset because he woudln't stop asking me it but the aid in the resource room explained to me what it meant.

One time when I was 15, I was in earth science and my teacher who worked in the resource room as my aid and shadow came in and asked this girl next to me what was shaking and I said nothing is shaking and as a joke I shake the whole table but the teacher explained to me what it meant.


When I was 16, I was in biology and my teacher was telling us to wear safety goggles because last time he didn't make his students wear any and he got in trouble for it. When I asked him about it, he told me it was after school when the other teacher came in his classroom and caught him with his pants down. This shocked me because I have never heard of a teacher having his pants down outside the bathroom or locker room, and his room so i asked him why did he have them down and this girl (the one who told katrina I didn't know "What's up?" means) laughs and says that's not what it means and my teacher told me it was just a figure of speech.

My english teacher had a coniption fit over "It's raining." I guess not so much for literal interpretation but for bad English. The point is you do not make a statement using a pronoun without clearly establishing the noun that the pronoun replaces.

What is "it"? WHAT is performing the action of raining?

The weather. Or the atmosphere. Or the clouds, although I suppose that would be "They're raining."



Yes, but eventually the night takes over more of the sky.



Yeah, I hate it when Danish people say that to me.
(FYI, I live in the US.)

How is your car going?

My answer: Brrm! Brrm! Brrrrrrm!