RE: What common expressions do you hate?
December 5, 2012 at 9:29 pm
(This post was last modified: December 5, 2012 at 9:31 pm by Angrboda.)
(December 5, 2012 at 2:34 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: People asking "how are you" as a greeting. Seriously don't ask that of me unless you are prepared for a half hour lecture on how my toes is not fully healed.
This becomes clearer once you understand language as having more than purely locutionary dimensions. (See, for example, Illocutionary Acts)
Oh, and, ni hao!