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How goes it?is actually the simple present, used in a question. It is not "slang". In modern English, it has become unusual to use the simple present in asking a question, and instead we tend to use the emphatic present form: for example, How does it go? Nevertheless, the fact that something is no longer common in modern English does not make it ungrammatical. If you read Shakespeare, you still see numerous examples of the simple present used in place of the present emphatic when asking questions. For example, in Act 5 of Julius Caesar, Volumnius asks Brutus "What says my lord?", while the same question asked today would probably be phrased "What does my lord say?" The modern preference, however, makes the other usage merely old-fashioned, and not incorrect.

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