@kevin-eleven saidYour post was railing against academics.
I don't quite see the connection between my post and your response to it, other than the inclusion of the word "academics".
Do you forget what you've posted? FMF often acts like he's forgotten what he said previously as well.
@ghost-of-a-duke saidThat is why it's extremely cordial and therefore colloquial.
'How you doing' brings up images of Joey Tribbiani.
If the grammar bothers you, you could say "How're you doing?"
Sometimes Americans tend to cut the ends off words, like the French. Depends on the accent the American has.
@suzianne saidOn page 5 I asked a question, and I made an observation.
Your post was railing against academics.
Do you forget what you've posted? FMF often acts like he's forgotten what he said previously as well.
How was that "railing against academics?"
Also, for the purpose of discussion, please define "railing".
@suzianne saidIt's interesting that you make such a selective claim regarding phonology, especially for someone who has been on the site since 2003.
That is why it's extremely cordial and therefore colloquial.
If the grammar bothers you, you could say "How're you doing?"
Sometimes Americans tend to cut the ends off words, like the French. Depends on the accent the American has.
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The post that was quoted here has been removedNote that Duchess64 fears being deposed from her position of academic privilege by a mobilization of hoi polloi roused from their slumber by -- as she frames it -- unauthorized bomb-tossing in the form of asking a question and making an observation.
How uncompliant of me!
What is to be done?
The post that was quoted here has been removedYou are mistaken if you think I am ethnocentric. Having spent more than half my life living in different cultures on the other side of the world from where Brits come from, I haven't found it hard to adapt to other cultures. I neither "cherish" Brit social norms, nor do I believe that they are "universal".