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really: - fine, you? - fine.. fine.. you? - fine :) heh,

• AlotOfReading 3y ago
  The yy/uu is an interrogative that turns the preceding sentence into a question, so it disappears. Literally translated, it's just: - good? - good, good? - good, <...> But the actual meaning is: - how's it going? - good, how 'bout you? - fine, <...> There's simply a few layers of simplification going on to get from the 'correct' grammar to here. Native speakers will use small differences in emphasis between the words, but I'm not nearly fluent enough for that.
• johnchristopher 3y ago
  Here's the french one: - ça va ? - ça va, ça va... ça va toi ? - ça va :) The `toi` is optional but there's a bit leg pulling involved.
  • jfengel 3y ago
    I particularly appreciate that this is literally "Does it go? It goes. Does it go for you? It goes." Native speakers don't generally look inside idioms the way non-native speakers do. English is full of equally odd-looking constructions. Still, this amuses me all the time in French.