Do native French speakers use "comme ci comme ça"?
When I tried to use this phase to mean "so so" in French, this Frenchman told me: "In France, we don't really use "comme ci comme ça". I find it weird when people keep using it."
He is from Marseille btw.

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If you wanna sound like a native for saying so-so you can say " Bof.." 
Comment ca va ? Bof...

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We use that in Belgium but it's very colloquial;

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Quoi de "plus ou moins"? cette expression est courant là-bas?

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I have limited experience of speaking with native French speakers, but I did use to work with a guy from Paris and he told me this phrase is old fashioned and not many people use it. Kind of like 'how do you do' in English.

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Hello,
This expression "Comme ci comme ça" is a little bit old-fashioned. It can be better to use "moyen", for example. "how are you? I m so-so" - "Comment vas tu? Moyen".

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