Timeline for What does "find someone well" mean?
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| Jul 12, 2012 at 23:55 | vote | accept | daisy | ||
| Jul 12, 2012 at 20:43 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @Jay, Mark: I think doing well has essentially the same sense in all such usages. In the absence of any associated context identifying some particular field in which one might be "excelling", the default is indeed "life in general". And, as any Fule Kno, the most important thing in life is health | |
| Jul 12, 2012 at 20:11 | comment | added | Jay | @mark No, it's conventional to say "I hope you're doing well" meaning that the person is getting along in life in general: healthy, happy, financially secure, whatever. You can, of course, talk about someone "doing his schoolwork well" or "doing well in his investments" or any number of other specifics. But "hope you're doing well" is a common idiom. | |
| Jul 12, 2012 at 17:15 | comment | added | John Lawler | It's also a spam marker, since nobody ever uses it except in the most highly formal styles, which spammers often try to emulate. | |
| Jul 12, 2012 at 16:56 | comment | added | mmmmmm | Tes for the first sentence but the second has a different meaning - the first really implies health the second is not complete means to me doing well at something | |
| Jul 12, 2012 at 16:41 | history | answered | kmote | CC BY-SA 3.0 |