@impiaaa One similar thing people do in German is to mumble something ending Was, e.g. "Der Idiot sagt 'Was?'", and people who didn't listen carefully instinctively ask

@elomatreb well that's a thing in English too

dumbstupididiotsaysWhat?

@elomatreb which btw I really don't like, whereas updog is good fun

@impiaaa I don't think there's a similarly non-mean-spirited version in German, esp. since asking "what's up" is really really slangy speech in German already

@elomatreb well that's why I was curious, since "what's up" specifically may be a construction limited to English. other languages may have a less-slang-y "how are you doing" or some such though

@impiaaa "Wie gehts?" is the correct/formal way to ask, "was geht" is slang and closer to "what's up" I think

@elomatreb @impiaaa huh til thank you

@er1n @elomatreb @impiaaa cant believe high school german class didnt teach me ANY slang

@jk @er1n @impiaaa Neither did English, but I learned to write essays about Canadian oil sand fields with the best of them :)

@jk @er1n @elomatreb @impiaaa That reminds me of taking German in 5th grade, and our teacher told us that if we all passed the final test, she'd teach us a bad word.

We all passed the final test.

...she taught us "dummkopf".

@bhtooefr @er1n @elomatreb @impiaaa this is quite zen

@elomatreb @impiaaa I think I found the DE updog too 🐕 😆 🇩🇪

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syITvZ_99w4

@elomatreb right, my idea was with the more formal, so the response would be
"Wie geht "Sihnen"?"
("Wie geht's ihnen?")
but yeah it's not great and I'm probably messing up somewhere anyway

@impiaaa That's just how we speak it anyway :P (northern German dialect blurs word boundaries heavily)

@impiaaa (Plus Ihnen implies the formal/honorific plural, which is weird to use with a personal question like that. "Wie geht's dir?" is probably better)

@elomatreb oh, yeah, whoops. and I guess "sdir" isn't a very easy-to-say song name