Does the colloquial "how are you" really differ any from asking how someone's mood is?
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Isn't "how are you?" Asking how you exist?
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Would you like to refer to my previous assertion that this greeting is not so much a philosophical, deep question, as it is a generality used to determine how another is feeling?
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But wouldn't the literal meaning of the combination of those words, in that order, be asking how you "are"? And without anything after that, isn't that asking how you exist?
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You may be forgiven, since you only know lion slang and sayings, but in human culture doesn't that series of words, combined, ask of the other their feelings and mood, so as to determine which way the following conversation should and will lead?