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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
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Good or Fine or Both ?

0 Last week i saluted someone with '01font00Hi. How are you ?02font00'.02br
00He replied '01font00I am good.02font00'.02br
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00But i expected 01font00fine02font00 instead of 01font00good02font00.02br
00I am not a native speaker nor he is '01font00not02font00'. <- Do i need a NOT here ?02br
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00I corrected him that it should be 01font00fine02font00 in a reply to that question.02br
00When i asked about it to another friend of mine, she told me that many native speakers also say '01font00I am good.02font00'.02br
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00So i am confused right now. Did i do the right thing?02br
00Can i say '01font00I am good.02font00' as a reply to that question?02br
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00Look at these.02br
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00Good book --- Fine book Good man --- Fine man Good habit --- Fine Habit02br
00Good money --- Fine money Good arts --- Fine arts Good weather --- Fine weather02br
00Good cloth --- Fine cloth Good time --- Fine time Good line --- Fine line02br
00Good day --- Fine day Good morning --- Fine morning02br
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00Sometimes good - fine can be used instead of each other but as far as i know the meaning changes 02br
00depending on the sentence or what you want to say.02br
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0Hi, I am not a native speaker, but you will most likely to hear "I am good" more than " I am fine" in English Spoken countries.0-
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0 It's one of those linguistic changes that happens. It started in the US and is spreading. Turned up in the UK a couple of years ago. At one time "I am fine" would have sounded odd in answer to "How are you?".0-
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0I am not a native speaker nor he is '01font00not02font00'. <- Do i need a NOT here ?02br
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00No, it is not needed. The negation of 'not' is included in the 'nor'. 02br
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00I am not a native speaker, nor is he.0-
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0 Don't forget to capitalize 01i00I02i00whenever it occurs, not just at the beginning of a sentence! 05002br
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00 I, too, would have expected "I'm fine", but there is no reason to correct someone for saying "I'm good". This is a less used alternative. Even "I'm well" can be used. The standard response is "I'm fine" where I live.02br
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0 -Thanks for the information.02br
00-It was the first sentence in my english book if I recall correctly. '01font00I am fine.02font00'02br
00Nobody was aware of the '01font00I am 01font00good02font00.02font00' usage then. Well, I am too ol
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0I am fine IS still much more common in the UK. 02br
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00I tried experimenting with 'I am good' a couple of years ago and found that it often confused people...they would mishear it or it wasn't the response they were expecting, and there would be a couple of seconds of awkwardness.0-
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0Well, I thought "I am good" is most common response in English spoken countries...but I now have realised it is not.02br
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00I lived in New Zealand for few years and now I am in Australia.02br
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00As far as I remember most common response to "how are you?" has been "I am good" or "Good, thanks" in both countries.02br
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