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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]ok Grammar Nazi, here's the thing about email correspondence. it is not an exercise in proper letter writing. it's more like... a halfway point between phone calls and text messages. if you write emails sounding like you just dipped your quill in an ink jar, you are culturally inappropriate, and therefore, your grammar is irrelevant.

[b]also, bee tee dub, language evolves. who says "how do you do?" anymore? who actually replies to "how are you?" with "fine!" anymore? no one, i tell you. NO. ONE.

people aren't "Fine" or "Doing well" anymore; they are "Good." everything is Good. is that grammatically correct???[/b] [/quote]

This is just wrong, wrong, wrong.  If I hear someone say good instead of fine, I assume they don't know how to speak properly.

On a side note:  I dated someone once who would always answer, "I'm fine, thanks."  It was utterly charming.  He was kind of a formal guy but very warm and the phrase had a certain lilt.  He'd always look you in the eye and smile as he said it, and it made you feel like he was mindful of you even in a throwaway part of conversation.  Whenever I think of him, that's what I remember.  Wish my description could convey how very lovely he was. . . 
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