20 Smart & Interesting Ways to Respond to 'What's up?'

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Hello everyone and welcome back to english with lucy today we are going to address
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a very important question a very overused question what's up what's up is
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one of those generic phrases that you will get asked time and time again a
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question to which we are all socially programmed to answer not much you now
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I'm going to provide you with some alternative responses I'm not going to
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commit to the objective funny I will say that they are different and potentially
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interesting if you are learning English as a Second Language and hopefully this
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humor and it should assist you in expanding your vocabulary slightly so
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that you don't have to just respond with nothing much or good thanks you before
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to sign up right let's get started with the lesson so a lot of these responses
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are quite a sarcastic when we ask the question what's up we are asking sort of
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what are you doing how are you how are you doing and we expect a generic answer
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but sometimes we want to provide the Oscar with something a little bit
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different take a look at my first example what's up well it's a movie
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about an old guy who makes his house fly away and captures a small child this is
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because we are sarcastically presuming that the person asking the question is
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asking about the movie up number two what's up my blood pressure actually
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another option continuing on the unhappy theme what's up my rent my taxes my
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bills this is true life is getting in very expensive well we could have a nice
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one number four what's up my serotonin levels after seeing you my friend I like
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that one I think I'm gonna use it more frequently or we could add a little
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suspicion into the mix number five what's up why what did you hear well we
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could take the question more literally number six what's up it's a two letter
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word indicating direction or if you like grammar you could say number seven
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what's up a preposition because it is another one
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number eight what's up not my salary unfortunately in a previous video which
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I will link down below we did discuss the difference between wages and salary
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if you want to use a general term you can say okay another one
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number nine what's up my anxiety levels it's true story another one what's up
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aeroplanes Birds clouds what do you want from me stop asking this boring question
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ooh the next one is quite threatening number
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eleven what's up your time on earth I can see it oh you
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could just be really honest and say what's up the opposite of down now
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another one that I really like because I feel like people ask what's up when they
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don't really care about what you have to say so you could kind of scare them and
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say something like how much time do you have honestly so much is up I'm so
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stressed let me tell you everything or this great answer - what's up something
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really refuses to give to anyone if you don't understand that I have got a link
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to the full explanation video for that one in the description box some other
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obvious ones we could say the sky or the ceiling or a couple of planets you could
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also mention some uncomfortable to some social issues like homelessness or
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childhood obesity or if you just want to be really honest you could reply to
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what's up with not me actually I've been feeling a bit down right that's it for
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different ways of responding to that totally boring question what's up don't
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