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December 10 2012, 11:10 PM

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Re: Sayings that you hate now

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Rhubarbodendron wrote:

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I don't exactly hate it, but it really puzzles me when I'm in the US and at every shop the staff asks "How are you today?"/.../

Isn't the phrase just a variation of the old How do you do?

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