Strange expression: 'Right you back!'

[Jan]

Hi,
I am now at home in Poland but the 10th of December
sailing time would start again.
I would finish with English because my new owner would be Norwegian and it won't be any scant of Englishman up
to the horizon ( hopefully)

Regards
Jan

[prezbucky]

Whatever the case, it's a somewhat awkward expression.

I am 30, and I'd never heard it until I read it in here.

(I don't mean to rip on it... just that, for me to get the hang of this, I'd have to hear it con frecuencia.)
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[Torsten]

Maybe Serzige can tell us in which episode of 'Friends' Jennifer Ashton used that phrase? It's very unlikely that she coined a new expression.
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[Jan]

Hopefully "right back at you" means something in States yet
"right you back" is wrong English or wrong American English
said in comedy in funny situation and so on ....and so on

"the same to you" you you ... bastard said with lack of some words at and with strange twisted form
right you back

This could be like with a story about Gombrowicz
A man (Gombrowicz) has written for them( people) the book and after all writer troubles they (all bad critics) come and complain that here or there are strange grammar rules or no conjuntion or etc...

Language is a part of entire life if something was written for fun we should help ourselves with our imagination.

I don't know anything about the movie but I guess it may be one solution.

Regards
Jan

[Torsten]

Jan, the question still remains: Why would Jennifer Ashton use a completely new phrase in a Sitcom? This is not about bad grammar or 'wrong American English'. It's about the fact that the language of Sitcoms is that of the average person, nothing unusual. As we have established, 'right you back' is not only unusual, it seems it's simply doesn't exist.
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Jan

"Right back at you" (pronunciation: "Right back atcha") is, if not common, at least known in the United States.
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[Yankee]

Hi Torsten

I think Jan may have found the most plausible solution for what was actually said in the sitcom: Right back at you.

I don't know how widely that expression is used -- it may be used much more often in some areas than others.

Judging from what I've seen in Google, it's usually synonymous with "Likewise" and can be used both positively or negatively.

By the way, did you know the Spice Girls had a song called "Right Back Atcha"?

Amy
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