In Severance one character asks another, “are you rich?”
Might be fun to live in a society where this was a normal polite question. Acceptable phatic answers:
“Yes”
“I do okay”
“Stinking”
“No”
Conversation
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Society where it’s commonly understood that the answer is communicating something any the responder’s state of mind, rather than quantitative net worth
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How would a character in Severance know? The gimmick is that they don't remember their lives outside of work, right?
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Had not heard small talk referred to as phatic expression before, cool word.
phatic response:
“I was before i met my wife”
this is for all my homies out there saying “living the dream”, or “well I’m here” when asked how they are doing at work.



