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Jun 19, 2023Liked by Kirsten Bell

The person B response of ‘Not too bad’ or ‘not too bad thanks’ is very common.

I had a German manager for a couple of years who found this relentlessly amusing.

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Jun 26, 2023·edited Jun 26, 2023

A variant, almost the obverse, to Not bad, is the response “Good”, heard in Toronto, to the question How are you? This is mostly but not exclusively from children.

The reciprocal Alright occurred in Guyanese usage as well, perhaps as a legacy from Guyana’s colonial British past.

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