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What is the phrasal verb? #16 (permalink) Wed Nov 29, 2006 23:21 pm   What is the phrasal verb?
 

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I am now at home in Poland but the 10th of December
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I would finish with English because my new owner would be Norwegian and it won't be any scant of Englishman up
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What is the phrasal verb? #17 (permalink) Thu Nov 30, 2006 0:28 am   What is the phrasal verb?
 

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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Strange expression: 'Right you back!' #18 (permalink) Thu Nov 30, 2006 9:47 am   Strange expression: 'Right you back!'
 

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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Strange expression: 'Right you back!' #19 (permalink) Thu Nov 30, 2006 18:12 pm   Strange expression: 'Right you back!'
 

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

"the same to you" :lol: you you ... bastard :lol: 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. :lol:

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

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Strange expression: 'Right you back!' #20 (permalink) Thu Nov 30, 2006 18:17 pm   Strange expression: 'Right you back!'
 

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 simply doesn't exist.
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Strange expression: 'Right you back!' #21 (permalink) Thu Nov 30, 2006 18:38 pm   Strange expression: 'Right you back!'
 

Jan

"Right back at you" (pronunciation: "Right back atcha") is, if not common, at least known in the United States.
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Strange expression: 'Right you back!' #22 (permalink) Thu Nov 30, 2006 18:55 pm   Strange expression: 'Right you back!'
 

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"? :lol:

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