When people ask, "How're you doing?" what is the correct reply?
Well, not exactly, is the correct reply, for other things matter too and even demographic trends can change over the decades.
It was only when Col Hunt questioned the translation and the whole intercept that it transpired that the correct reply to the question was, in fact, 'Ja, Abt is mit Monchem in Kloster'.
At which the poor boy paused to catch his breath, looked upward like Christ on the Cross, then clambered up to us and breathed out, in a faint voice, the implausible yet utterly correct reply: ' "Go on, for I am strong and confident".
If the correct reply is received within an expected time interval, the monitored process is considered to be correct or fault-free.
The next day, Arthur Hugh Frazier, one of the colonel's three principal aides, sent a coldly correct reply to Quoc, also in French, that read simply: "Monsieur, Colonel House has charged me with acknowledging reception of your letter of 18 June , 1919 and to thank you for the copy that you enclosed of the Note of Claims of the annamite [sic] people on the occasion of the Allies' victory".
Initially unconvinced, Shortland raised the recognition signal for Spanish vessels and received the correct reply from the lead frigate.
Unable to send the correct reply, L'Insurgente replaced the American colors with French and fired a gun.
There were 16 dichotomous items under each classification, and total scores on each of the four subtests were calculated by aggregating the correct replies in each category.
Exam prep is grueling, but there isn't any mystery involved; correct replies make for a higher score.
