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English with Lucy
36 Smart and Interesting Responses to 'HOW ARE YOU?'
36 Smart and Interesting Responses to 'HOW ARE YOU?'
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12:18 · 11 thg 12, 2019
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(soft music) - Hello, everyone, and welcome back to English with Lucy.
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Today I'm doing one of your requests.
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Somebody asked me how to respond to "how are you".
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And they don't just want to say I'm fine or "I'm good",
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some more advanced, interesting and creative ways to answer "how are you".
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Now I've mentioned before this question,
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"how are you" does not always mean what do you think it means.
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It's not always necessary to reply to "how are you" with "how you are."
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In this lesson, I'm going to tell you all about how to answer this
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very common and important question
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and I'm going to help you sound more advanced
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Let's get started with the lesson.
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Firstly, I want to discuss some common mistakes
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that non native speakers often make
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and some native speakers
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as well.
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And there's also a perceived mistake,
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natives will tell you
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that you're wrong but you're actually right
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and we'll go through
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that.
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Many people will tell you
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that it's incorrect to respond to "how are you" with,
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"I'm good."
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They say it's wrong.
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It's not wrong to any natives who are listening and thinking, Oh, my word,
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my mother told me it was wrong my whole life.
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Your mother was wrong, I'm sorry.
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Even my own parents told me that it was wrong to say "I'm good",
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I should say, I'm well.
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However, in this case, good can be used.
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I think my parents probably told me not to say it
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because it sounded too American
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and as a child,
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I had this terrible habit of picking up phrases
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that I'd seen on American TV shows
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and using them in a tiny little British accent
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and they hated it.
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Saying "I'm good" is grammatically correct
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if you are not directly referring to your health.
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So if you're just saying in general, I am good, it's fine.
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Just as if you would say, in general, I am bad.
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"I'm well" is also fine
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and it normally means
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that you're referring to your health for saying good
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or satisfactory.
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However, this is where people get confused.
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If you say "I'm doing well" that's fine,
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but be careful when responding with "I'm doing good."
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Because if you say I am doing good,
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it means you are doing good things like visiting homeless shelters
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and donating toys to children's hospitals,
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good things.
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You aren't talking about how you are.
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Now, let's take a look at some easy ways to say I'm good
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or I'm fine.
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I'm good, I'm fine, I'm well, I'm pretty overused they're very, very boring.
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So if you want to impress an examiner will impress a native speaker
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or just your friends
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and family,
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take a look at these.
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We can add pretty.
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So we'd say, I'm pretty good, I'm pretty well, you could say pretty fine.
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Maybe not as much in the UK, but maybe more in America.
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Pretty in this case means fairly.
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I'm fairly good, I'm fairly well.
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You can also say quite, I'm quite good, I'm quite well,
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but that sounds much more formal.
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"I'm quite well, thank you," very formal to me.
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If you want to emphasise how good you are, you can say really,
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I'm really good, really well.
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Now those are still pretty basic.
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So what about some more interesting ways to respond to "how are you."
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Well, one I really like is I've never been better,
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shorten to never been better.
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This means that you are feeling truly great.
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You could also say, so far so good.
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This is also commonly used
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if you're doing a task you're talking about the progress until now it's been
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going well,
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your life has been going well.
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Another one one that I'm seeing a lot nowadays is can't complain.
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And this can be said in more than one way,
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it depends on the tone of voice.
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If I say can't complain,
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it means my life's amazing but I don't want to brag about it,
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so I'm just gonna say can't complain.
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If I said, "can't complain,
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I guess I can't complain," it means could be worse.
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The more common use is the sort of self deprecating,
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not wanting to show off kind of use.
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And another one is, "Better than I deserve."
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I like this one, it's quite funny.
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This is quite a tongue in cheek one.
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Okay, I'm going to give you a couple of silly ones
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as well if you want to make people laugh
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or cringe.
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If you're a dog lover, and someone asks you how you are,
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you could say, "if I had a tail,
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I would wag it." (laughing)
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And you can also have a couple of flirty ones.
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If someone says "how are you," you could reply with Word on the street
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is "I'm pretty good." (chuckling)
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Or I'm great,
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but I'm totally biassed.
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I love those ones,
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I'm standing on my own in my studio dancing alone how much I like
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these ones.
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Now, what do you say if you're neither good, nor bad?
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If you are, okay, I'm okay is really, really boring, though.
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Let's look at some other more exciting ones like,
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I'm all right. (laughing) Now I wanted to mention I'm all right,
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because it's a unique one in the sense
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that it can be both a question
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and an answer.
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I might say to someone, all right, and they'll say, All right.
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So it's like, "how are you"?
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Yeah, I'm okay.
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It's very, very frequently used
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and just be careful on the pronunciation we don't always pronounce the "L".
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We say all right.
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Another one is, so so, so so, could be better.
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The next one, not too bad, is again,
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one that depends on tone of voice.
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If I say, not too bad, it means good, but in this case,
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not too bad, it means, I'm not great.
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Another one, could be better, could be better,
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but I could also be worse
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that something you can add on to the end.
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If everything's just really boring and average, you can say, same old,
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same old really.
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Another couple which mean you just this close to being bad is I'm alive,
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or I'm surviving. (laughing) And the last, good enough, good enough.
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There used to be a teacher at my school Mr.
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Good Enough and I thought, what a I don't wanna say his name,
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but just who named him in the past.
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He's not great, but he's good enough, let's call him Mr.
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Good enough.
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A couple of funny ones, especially sarcastic ones, they're quite useful.
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You could say I'm all right now,
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but there's still time for everything to go horribly wrong.
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Or a flat one, better now, that I'm talking to you.
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That's quite a charming one.
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Now what should you say if you are bad, if you feel terrible,
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just you're not having a good day for whatever reason.
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Well, quite a good way to start off a complaint
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or a negative phrase is to start with,
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I'm not going to lie...
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That is a nice way to prepare someone for the negativity
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that is about to escape your mouth.
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I'm not gonna lie, I feel terrible.
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You could also say, I'm not doing so well or I'm struggling a bit,
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these to imply that you're struggling,
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maybe a little bit mentally or emotionally as well.
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So it's important to watch out for somebody who says these to you,
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because they might need a bit of support.
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The same way with "I'm snowed under" to be snowed under means you've just
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got too much work,
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you're completely under pressure.
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Or it's been a tough day, week or year.
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It's been a bit of a tough week.
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Another one, I'm not having an easy time at the moment.
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Watch out for people who say those phrases
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because sometimes they're reaching out a little bit
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and might need support.
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Now what happens if you feel bad,
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but you don't necessarily want to talk about it?
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Well, I have some phrases you can use to avoid the question.
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If someone asks, "how are you", you could say you don't want to know.
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Or don't ask, honestly, just don't ask me.
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Another one, "Do I have to answer that?"
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Maybe if they know that you're not having a good time, and they've asked,
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"how are you" anyway, which is a bit annoying, you could say,
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"Do I really have to answer that," I think you already know.
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Or what happens if somebody asks "how are you" really early in the morning,
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you could say, "it's too early to tell."
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And if you are feeling ill a nice idiom we can use is,
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I'm a bit under the weather.
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I'm feeling a bit under the weather, I'm not feeling very well.
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And finally, a couple of funny ones, you could say, "overworked and underpaid!"
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I remember there was a teacher who would always say
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that when I asked him how he was,
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"how are you," overworked and underpaid, but I'm doing Okay, thank you.
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You could also say, slowly but surely dying actually.
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Aren't we all?
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If you want to be really sarcastic, you could say,
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somewhere between blah and meh or if you just need a hug,
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you could say, just hug me and leave it at that.
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Right, that's it for today's lesson,
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I hope you enjoyed it and I hope you learned something.
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