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Dominik Posted 19 years ago
Business & Finance

How do you do?

0 I know what "01i00How do you do?02i00" means but I am surprised by this exercise from "Basic Survival" (AmE). This is the whole exercise with all possible answers. I matched these sentences and that is it what came out.02br
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00Match the sentences:02br
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00Greeting Response02br
01i00Hello ~Hello02br
01b00How do you do? ~Fine, thanks. And you?02b02br
00Please call me Tom. ~OK... Tom.02br
00Welcome to Smith Imc. ~I'm glad to be here. 02br
00So you are the director? ~ That's right.02br
00Please sit down. ~Thank you.02i02br
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00So, can we say in response to How do you do? ~`Fine, thanks and you ???02br
00Or, meybe it is a typo :/02br
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00Thanks!0-
  

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0Hi,02br 02br 01font 00So, can we say in response to How do you do? 02font 02br 02br 01font 00Definitely not. ' For this, 02font 01font 00~`Fine, thanks and you?

— Clive

  • 0Hi,02br 02br 01font 00So, can we say in response to How do you do?
  • 02font 02br 02br 01font 00Definitely not.
  • ' For this, 02font 01font 00~`Fine, thanks and you?
  • 02br 02br 00Best wishes, Clive0-
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0Hi,02br
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01font00So, can we say in response to How do you do? ~`Fine, thanks and you ???02font02br
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01font00Definitely not. Just reply with 'How do you do?'02font02br
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01font00Perhaps the writer of the exercise was thinking o
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0 Hi Clive, thanks for the reply.02br
00I know that 01i00How are you02i00? in this context is ok.02br
00I don't like the book more and more. To many typos 05002br
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00Regards02br
00Dominik010id6
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0Also, if someone says "Please call me Tom," the expected resonse is something like "Okay Tom. And please call me Dominik." If one person asks you to call him by his first name but you don't respond in kind, at least in the U.S., that could be awkward. Do you expect to call him Tom while he calls you Mr. Smith? Again, in the U.S., very few people use Mr. or Ms. at work.0-
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0 Hi, 02br
00Barbara, I agree with you. It looks like, the book is half-baked. 02br
00I hope you don't mind calling you Barbara. 02br
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00Regards,02br
00Dominik0-
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0Of course not! Though my preferred form of address is "Hello Barbara. May I buy you a beer?"02br
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