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[gnomi]

[Poll #980855]

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[530nm330hz.livejournal.com]

My answer to "how are you" is contextual: Either "Baruch Hashem" or "Thank God, no complaints." But the answer to the question you wanted me to answer is "I'm well."

[estherchaya.livejournal.com]

Someone asks, "How are you?" Your response is:

Strictly speaking, my response would be "I'm well, thank you. How are you?" So I chose "other" this time. (I might also say, "I'm well, thank G-d. And you?"... depending on my conversation partner.)

[jesshartley.livejournal.com]

These are both situations where I know that I use phrases that are not technically correct but are (I believe) common venacular.

I say "I'm good." or "Doing great" or "Fantastic, thanks for asking." but mostly "Doing good!" or "Good, good!"

I also say that I'm glad she made it home safe (or "safe and sound")

I might sometimes say "safely", but I think most times, "safe and sound."

[eroticjames.livejournal.com]

Number one, I'd tend to be the "Whoa cool" responsive kinda person. But gramatically I'd say "safe" not "safely"

Number two, outside of western slang ("fair to middlin," "can't complain" or the like) "I'm okay." Never use good or well in that context.

And my mom has an OLD Growth Avocado tree in her yard. Round, hard skinned and the size of softballs. Man are they incredible.

[madfilkentist]

I'm not sure whether "safe" or "safely" is correct in the first one, but "safe" is what I'd say.

Both "I'm good" and "I'm well" seem a bit awkward to me. I'd normally say "I'm fine."

[byrne.livejournal.com]

"I'm glad she's safe" or "I'm glad she got home okay" Both 'home safe' and 'home safely' feel very awkward to me out loud.

"I'm fine."

[ephemera.livejournal.com]

I'm more likely to say 'good' than 'well, but actually at the moment it tends to be 'getting there - and you?' or 'not too bad - how're you?' or 'pretty good - and you?'

I'm glad you got home safe and well / I'm glad they got home safely.

[squashed.livejournal.com]

My answer to how are you would be "not bad" or "I'm fine" the other two I wouldn't say.

And I'm with byrne, although I clicked for home safely, I would be more likely to say I'm glad she got home okay. But if I had to say safe or safely, I'd go with safely.

[farwing.livejournal.com]

I know none of that is the correct way, and sometimes I do say it the correct way, but mostly not. Also, avocados are proof that god loves us and wants us to be happy. Really.

[tsuki-no-bara.livejournal.com]

usually i answer "how are you" with "not bad - yourself?" or "been better, been worse," depending. but in a choice between "i'm good" and "i'm well," i'd be good. which i know is wrong but it sounds better to me.

[llennhoff.livejournal.com]

How are you? In a secular environment usually "I'm fine thanks, and you?"
In other circumstances I answer Baruch Hashem or Gam Zeh L'Tovah depending on whether I am happy or (I am sad and willing to share that fact with the person asking).

[mamadeb.livejournal.com]

My answer to "how are you?" is usually, "Just fine. And you?"

Sometimes, if the context seems to ask for it, I'll say "Baruch HaShem".

[xochitl42.livejournal.com]

For some reason, I default to "fine" or "okay" as opposed to safe, safely, good, or well. [shrug]...

[kuroshii.livejournal.com]

the getting of home was done safely, but she is now home and safe.

i'm doing good but feeling well. i usually answer something completely different, though.

why do people insist on putting chopped raw onions in my guacamole?!?! blech. if i know their recipe doesn't involve onions, then it's yay for all things avocado.

[kuroshii.livejournal.com]

i'm doing good but feeling well.

< OLD-movie willy wonka voice >
scratch that. reverse it.
< /OLD-movie willy wonka voice >

::scurries away for more coffee::

[pressburger.livejournal.com]

For the record, I say "I'm good." But I freely admit that "I'm well." is the technically correct.

[teapot-farm.livejournal.com]

"I'm fine" or "I'm pretty good", but never "I'm good" without a qualifier, that seems wrong

[kmelion.livejournal.com]

"I'm doing ok", "Thank God" or "Baruch Hashem"

[janedavitt.livejournal.com]

How are you?
I'm fine, thank you.

That's me :-)

[chaiya.livejournal.com]

Guacamole with cilantro = yuck.
Guacamole without cilantro = yum!

Cilantro = The Evil Herb. :)

[sethcohen.livejournal.com]

You are told that someone went through a harrowing journey but that the journey ended fine. You say:

Hooray!

Someone asks, "How are you?" Your response is:

Contexutally appropriate. I will say a litany of things, possibly including but not limited to "I'm tired!" "I'm good!" "I'm exhausted!" "Moderately okey-dokey." "Reasonably nifty." "Peachy keen!", etc.

[zsero.livejournal.com]

1. I'm glad she got home OK.
2. BHYY (which is an utter non-response. Someone I know used to counter with "yes, I know, but are you baruch hashem great or baruch hashem terrible?".)
3. Avocados are always good. Unless the specific avocado is bad.

[betra.livejournal.com]

I usually respond to "How are you" with "Fine, and how are you?" or some variation on that. I am too chatty to stop at "I am well." :D

[dpolicar]

In both cases, I'm aware of the grammar involved, but the form I use depends on a few things.

I'm most likely to say "I'm glad she's OK", present-tense, context-independent. If for some reason I want to narrow my context down to the event in question, I'll say "got home safe" if I want to emphasize her condition at the end of the process, and "got home safely" if I want to emphasize the lack of further incident on the very last leg of her journey.

In semi-ritual cases -- where the person probably cares a little about the answer -- I say a wide variety of things in response to "How are you?". "Fine," "Great!," "Surviving," "Doing OK," and "Eh" are common.
I use "Well" with waitrons at mid-to-high-end restaurants and similar middle-class-ritual cases.
I use "Good" in lower-class ritual cases.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I'd say "i'm fine thanks"

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

"Fine thanks, how are you?"

[yin-again.livejournal.com]

I'll say, "I'm doing well." It's Georgia, people would look at me funny if I just said, "I'm well." Also, it makes me feel like Teyla, except I'd have to nix the contraction.

[half-double.livejournal.com]

I voted for "I'm well," because that's what Inner Me wants to say. However, when asked, I usually say, "I'm OK" or, "I'm doing all right." Because I know that "well" is correct, and saying "good" makes me cringe, but when I say "well," people look at me like I'm some uber-stuck-up Victorian priss utterly lacking in hipness.

Which is something I hope to avoid at all costs.

[jencallisto]

"I'm doing well," usually. Or sometimes just "Good!" or "Pretty good!" or some variant.

[tikvah.livejournal.com]

Response to the journey comment: Depends on my audience. If I'm among a group of people who are primarily grammarians, I'll use "safely," but if I'm among a group of people who would be put off by "safely," I'll probably use "safe" if I don't want to derail the conversation.

Response to the question about my well-being: I usually just use one word, like "great" or "crappy," instead of a phrase or sentence.

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

How are you? I'm fine.