"You alright?"
The typical answer would be, "I'm doing great, and how are you?"
But what if what appears to be a question isn't really a question? What if it's just a typical greeting that doesn't call for an actual response?
Lots of people here use that phrase as a greeting. Enter a store, "you alright?" Walk past builders working on your flat, "you alright?" Get into a taxi to go home, "you alright?"
I still have no idea how to respond. I've just resorted to my American version of the phrase so my response is, "How are you?" J suggested the Joey from Friends version, "How you 'doooin?" but seeing as I'm not a fictional Italian man from NYC, I don't think I can pull it off.
Clever, eh?
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