A very convenient English way

Are you alriiiight?

That, yea, how odd, that’s what I thought. I thought, for awhile, the reason why people asked that was ’cause I actually looked not “alright”. Then, after finding out the use of the phrase, recently, I’ve figured that it is quite concise and useful in a way that it allows shorter way to answer my status than having “hi” then asking “how are you doing?”.

So, it goes like,

“Are you right?”, “Oh, no. Quite sick lately.” -> TADA! or…

“Hi!”, “Hey!”, “What’s up.”, “Nothing much… just been sick lately.” -> LONGER!

Oh, my God, James, it’s quite convenient! James: yea, straight to the point.

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