Re: "How are you", in different languages?

Quoting "E. Notagain" <ecg321@...>:

> I'm very disorganized -- don't mind me...
>
> A few things, first: who here creates dialects, contractions,
> and "uneducated speech" for their conlangs?
My "primary" conlang, Tairezazh, supposedly has alot of dialects, and I've
indeed come up with lots of non-standard features that supposedly occur in on
dialect or another, but as yet, I haven't develop any particular 'lect, other
than the Standard, to anything like a whole. It also has a few (spoken)
contractions, eg /ta ai/ "I am" coming out as [ta:j] (cf the slow-and-careful
form [ta aj], but it's an area I probably ought to work more on. It also has a
couple of slangy expressions, my fave being _shodzvan_, lit "eyeable", for
"sexy".

> Second: What, in your language (conlang and natlang), is the closest
> translation to the English "How are you" (conversation starter and
> greeting)?
Well, what _I_ mostly use in this function is _(Och) Hur lever livet med [insert
name] då?_, which means "(And) How is life living with [insert name] then", but
I'm afraid I'm pretty alone in this usage. A more common Swedish expression for
the same might be _hallå, hur mås (det)?_ "hello, how is (it) feeling?".

I don't seem to be having anything of this kind for any of my conlangs yet.

                                                              Andreas

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