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[Q]: Possible Duplicate: When someone asks, 'How are you?' Every time when my colleges from USA ask me 'How are you?' I don't know what should I answer. I think that answer like 'Fine, thanks. What about you?' is not perfect. Could you provide patterns for such situation?.
[A]: Fine, thanks. What about you? There's nothing wrong with your answer, although it might get tiresome if you word it exactly the same way, every time you're asked. But the solution for that is to merely use a few simple variations: I'm doing great today - and you? Doing well, thanks. How about you? Not bad, yourself? Thanks for asking, I'm doing fine. I think it's usually best to avoid clever responses to such a standard question, particularly when you're with new acquaintences. Sure, you could reply with something like, 'I'm happy as a clam,' but that's not very professional, and it would probably undermine your credibility rather than enhance it. Such jocular ways of answering are best left said among close acquaintences when everyone is kidding around.


[Q]: Possible Duplicate: How do I say 'Our meeting is preponed'? A friend of mine asked me this question, and it caught my curiosity. Is there an explicit opposite of the word postpone? As in, do something in advance? Clearly what I just said is functionally equivalent to the answer I am seeking, but I was wondering if there was a single word that is the antonym. More context: Bob was supposed to start work in July, but due to a work visa issue, he had to begin in advance.
[A]: The most business-speaky option is expedite. Other alternatives include accelerate, hasten, and advance. Technically prepone is in fact the precise antonym, but I honestly wouldn't be caught dead using it.


[Q]: In conversation sometimes I'll say something like this: What's that do? which uses 's' as a contraction for 'does'. Is this a 'real' contraction, or is it incorrect usage of a contraction?.
[A]:
According to Merriam-Webster and Dictionary.com, 'what's' is short for: 'what is' (What's the matter?) 'what has' (What's happened to the car?) 'what does' (What's that mean?) So it appears that 'What's that do?' is grammatically correct. Merriam-Webster: what's Dictionary.com: what's