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I never understood why people just randomly ask “how are you?” if they don’t really care. By that point is just better not to talk.
In the UK at least, ‘you alright?’, shortened to ‘right?’ is just used as a greeting. In the same way that ‘how are you doing’ got shortened to ‘howdy’. It’s just another form of greeting or pleasantry.
If you’re actually interested how someone is, you’ll ask without the contraction (‘are you alright?’), and with a different intonation.
I think that’s a fairly reasonable way of doing conversation; I don’t have a problem with it.
“I acknowledge your presence and I do hope that you are doing well right now but as you already know I’m on my way somewhere so I will quickly leave yet it won’t be considered rude thanks to my indication of concern for your wellbeing”
->
“‘sup!”
Not a terrible shorthand all things considered
