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[Migrated, see pinned post] Casual Conversation

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I say like and do you know what I mean constantly. Also "I've got it"

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[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"Upright and conscious" is my goto response to casual questions. I also preference almost every sentence with some modulation of "Yeah", meaning everything from "Yeah, I agree wholeheartedly" to "Yeah, bro you sure you wanna do this?" to "yeahh so the cops are here and I told you so""

“Alive and vertical” is my variation on that first one there. Sometimes I use “very low baseline” as an afterthought, because some folks seem confused by it.

I also say “I know English wasn’t my first language, but I could have sworn this made sense. Maybe we’re speaking different English.” I speak English just fine, without any trace of accent (beyond Chicago), but that makes people take a step back and pay attention to what I said or wrote.