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Asked by: Jorunn Sanneh
hobbies and interests stamps and coinsWhat does what's up with you mean?
"What's up with you" is another way of saying"What is new in your life" or "Tell me what you have beendoing recently".
Correspondingly, what to say when someone asks what's up with you?
" or here (West Midlands of England)commonly just "sup" is a general greeting, you can responsewith answers like "Not much", "Nothing", "Alright" etc. In thiscontext, the response is just a return of the greeting, or aconfirmation that all is going normally.
One may also ask, what is the answer of what's up?
Normally people reply "not much",which I think is the appropriate way of answering thisquestion when you are not doing anything. But in case you are doingsomething, it would be better to say what you aredoing.
requests a statement about you in general, while'How about you?' requests a response about your manner,means, or condition." From my point of view, if the differencebetween what about and how about in general is slight, thedifference between what about you and how about youis even slighter.