Natural neutral replies

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positive than

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all the usual answers we give to the

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question how are you now it's funny

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because when we are okay and good and

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everything's fine we always say that we

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are not bad or okay we always say the

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opposite really of what we are if we're

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great we say we're okay if we're

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fantastic we say we're not bad but what

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happens when we actually are bad if

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we're sad if we've had some really bad

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news or if we're ill then what we

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normally say in this situation is that

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we have been better I have been better

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so we use a positive word in a negative

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sentence to say that we are bad in the

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same way that we use a negative word in

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a positive sentence to say that we are

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good why do we have to be so complicated

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so if you aren't really bad you can say

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I've been better

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I mean you can say this if if someone's

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died how are you

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I've been better you could also say not

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great not the best again using positive

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words great