how's=how was?
Jun-jie Tseng
Can I use the short form "how's" for "how was?"
For example, "How's your weekend?"
Thanks!
Jack
Clark S. Cox, III
> Hello,
>
> Can I use the short form "how's" for "how was?"
> For example, "How's your weekend?"
Usually, when I hear "How's", I interpret it as "How is", not "How
was".
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Franke
Jun-jie Tseng wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Can I use the short form "how's" for "how was?"
> For example, "How's your weekend?"
You certainly can, but it would be incorrect English because
"how's" means "how is" and not "how was".
Fabian
"Jun-jie Tseng" <tsen...@ms26.hinet.net> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> Can I use the short form "how's" for "how was?"
> For example, "How's your weekend?"
You can. (you can do anything you feel like). However, you would be
misunderstood every time you did so. Don't do it!
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>
> Hello,
>
> Can I use the short form "how's" for "how was?"
> For example, "How's your weekend?"
No.
"How's" means "how is", not "how was," and using it for "how was"
can cause confusion. I realize that someone asking "How's your
weekend?" on a Wednesday couldn't be literally using "how's" to mean
"how is," but I would still think the person was confused rather
than asking "How was your weekend?"
Sometimes in speaking someone will swallow enough of the sound of
"how was" to make it sound almost the same as "how's." But that
doesn't mean the person is saying "how's. The person is just
talking fast.
N.Mitchum
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> Can I use the short form "how's" for "how was?"
> For example, "How's your weekend?"
No. "How's" is a contraction of "how is" or sometimes "how has."
"How's your weekend?" should mean "How is your weekend?" Perhaps
it is instead a mis-hearing of the rapidly spoken "How was your
weekend?"
----NM
ref
On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, Jun-jie Tseng wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Can I use the short form "how's" for "how was?"
> For example, "How's your weekend?"
No. "How's" = "How is".
GregParmele
communication. Regionally speaking I am accustomed to hearing: How's it
going? (how is) or How're you doing? (how are). I don't believe that I have
heard "how's" to mean how was. The two words are usually run together but the
difference is clear to my native ear.
Lars Eighner
the lovely and talented Jun-jie Tseng
broadcast on alt.usage.english:
JT> Hello, Can I use the short form "how's" for "how was?" For
JT> example, "How's your weekend?"
No.
You have got a lot of wrong answers to this question.
"How's" means "how is" *or* "how has."
How's he been doing? = how has he been doing?
How's the crab here? = how is the crab here?
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Steve Hayes
wrote:
>Can I use the short form "how's" for "how was?"
>For example, "How's your weekend?"
No.
"How's" suggests present-future.
"How's your weekend?" would mean (to me) "What will you be doing next
weekend?"
Steve Hayes
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Fabian
"Lars Eighner" <eig...@io.com> wrote in message
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> In our last episode, <3acf2401...@netnews.hinet.net>,
> the lovely and talented Jun-jie Tseng
> broadcast on alt.usage.english:
>
> JT> Hello, Can I use the short form "how's" for "how was?" For
> JT> example, "How's your weekend?"
>
> No.
>
> You have got a lot of wrong answers to this question.
>
> "How's" means "how is" *or* "how has."
>
> How's he been doing? = how has he been doing?
> How's the crab here? = how is the crab here?
So it can also mean 'how has' then?
Written, it has only one meaning. Spoken quickly, 'how was' and 'how has'
tend to be /haU@z/, as opposed to /haUz/ (how is = how's).
P. Schultz
> <...>
> Written, it has only one meaning. Spoken quickly, 'how was' and 'how has'
> tend to be /haU@z/, as opposed to /haUz/ (how is = how's).
Not exactly. /haUz/ is also used (very commonly and generally) to mean
"how was."
\\P. Schultz
Fabian
"P. Schultz" <schu...@erols.com> wrote in message
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Not in my dialect. Your dialect may differ.
P. Schultz
>
> "P. Schultz" <schu...@erols.com> wrote in message
> news:3AD0D4CF...@erols.com...
> > Fabian wrote:
> > > <...>
> > > Written, it has only one meaning. Spoken quickly, 'how was' and 'how
> has'
> > > tend to be /haU@z/, as opposed to /haUz/ (how is = how's).
> >
> > Not exactly. /haUz/ is also used (very commonly and generally) to mean
> > "how was."
>
> Not in my dialect. Your dialect may differ.
Yeah, mine and everybody else who speaks standard colloquial native
English.
\\P. Schultz
Evan Kirshenbaum
I don't think I agree with either of you, if I understand you
correctly. "How's" (/haUz/) for me is "how is" or "how has", but not
"how was". "How's he doing?" and "How's he been?" have the same first
word, but I can't come up with a sentence in which I'd use it for "how
was". It seems to be, as Fabian said, at least /haU@z/.
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Ross Howard
wrote:
Make that everybody minus one. I slur the w's in "how was", but the
result sounds exactly like "how as" and nothing like the verb "house".
Ross Howard