You / You are

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jack

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Oct 20, 2004

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Are these correct? What do they mean?

1. What are you doing now
2. What you doing now? (Is this incorrect? I hear people say this sometimes.)

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Casiopea

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Oct 20, 2004

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jack said:
Are these correct? What do they mean?

1. What are you doing now?
2. What you doing now? (Is this incorrect? I hear people say this sometimes.)

1. is OK; 2. is not Standard English, which isn't to say that it's not OK in some other dialect of English.

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blacknomi

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Oct 20, 2004

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Whachoo doing now?

Could be utterd from kids, or adults in a funny tone.

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Casiopea

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Oct 20, 2004

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blacknomi said:
Whachoo doing now?

Could be utterd from kids, or adults in a funny tone.

Actually, it's widely used in all situations:

what you => whatyu => whachu (Pronunciation: coalesence)

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