Nice and Interesting for a Small fortune which is Pretty good.

[Steve]

---  "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
>
> Steve/bluewizard/formerly bboyminn wrote:
> <snip>
> > 'What's up?'
> > 
> > This may be more of an American thing, but Americans say 'What's
> up?' as a greeting all the time. I've spoken to some foreigners who
> took forever to understand that they were merely asking 'How are
> you?'. <snip>
> 
> Carol responds:
> 
> Not to be contrary, but I think "What's up?" is  more like "What's
> happening?" or "What's going on?" ...
> 
> Carol, 

bboyminn:

OK, you got me on a technicality. More literally, 'What's up?' would
be 'What's happening?'. I was just intending to say that is was a very
non-specific general greeting, that in and of itself has very little
meaning. Typically you respond with an equally non-specific repsonse
like 'not much' and things move forward. 

Still, I've talked to several foreigns who claimed they took the
longest time to understand the significants of 'What's up?'. 

So...pretty good...heh?

Steve/bboyminn

Bluewizard is another sceen name that I use mostly in audio related
groups, and I had just been in them before coming here. It gets
confusing sometimes.