A L O H A !
Ahalan , Nei Ho Dobrý den / Ahoj, Goddag, oede dag, Hallo, Saluton, Hei, Bonjour Guten Tag, Gia'sou, Shalom, Namaste, Jó napot, Góðan daginn, Aksunai / Qanuipit? Dia dhuit, Salve / Ciao, Kon-nichiwa, An-nyong Ha-se-yo, Salve / Salvëte, Ni hao, Dzien' dobry, Olá ! Bunã ziua, Zdravstvuyte, Jambo / Hujambo, Hej, Sa-wat-dee
Merhaba / Selam, Vitayu, Xin chào Hylo;
Sut Mae? Sholem Aleychem
" How glorious a greeting
the sun gives the mountains!
"
John Muir
“Care more for the individual patient
than for the special features of the disease. . . .
Put yourself in his place . . .
The kindly word, the cheerful greeting,
the sympathetic look --
these the patient understands.”
William Osler
William Osler
" Don't
tell your friends
about your indigestion.
' How are you '
is a greeting,
not a question.
"
Arthur Guiterman
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" Parting
is such a sweet sorrow
that I shall say
goodnight
till it be morrow. "
Shakespeare
Shakespeare
=^.^=
Nobody says "Hello."
Back in New York,
it was "How ya doin`?"
Which is nice for me
because in Hawaii
it is informally common to say:
"Howzit?"
(How is it?)
or "Howzit, Brah?"
(Brother, Sistah, Auntie, Uncle)
Easy to guess my vintage
(I'm done fooling myself,
about that at least)
because I call everyone
"Man"
like a beatnik from the
early Sixties.
"Dude" seems too much
like "trying."
"Aloha" is always nice,
and always acceptable
anywhere in Hawaii,
but one seems to hear it
less and less.
Like it's mostly for the visitors
to feel like they
someplace different.
Native Hawaiians
do
say Aloha to
one another.
Native Hawaiians
do
say Aloha to
one another.
"Hey"
or the nod,
or especially
the eye-contact
smile;
All popular
with me.
Aloha kakahiaka Good morning
Aloha awakea Good mid-day (10 am - 2 pm)
Aloha `auinala Good late afternoon (after mid-day)
Aloha ahiahi Good evening (around sunset)
Aloha auinapo Good late night (after midnight)
Aloha po Good night
Aloha ahiahi ia oukou Good evening to all of you (plural)
So what is the greeting
where YOU
live?
Tell us in 'comments'
Warmly, cloudia
Tell us in 'comments'
Warmly, cloudia
19 comments:
Seriously? "What up nigger?" Then you go across 8 mile "What the fucks up?" and then the universal "See the gun, give it up! Hurry up!"
It's The forgotten city, Detroit, we take no offense except at the last one. Then the afterward is "Fuck 'em" that's the greeting you get from 911.
Hello, Cloudia, how are you?
Are you well? That's good, I'm glad to hear it.
Hiya, alright? Yeah, you?
Good morning/afternoon/evening - not so much these days.
Our greeting here is 'Ow do?'
Oh what a polyglot morning!! Fun post. Depending on age and ethnicity people around here say Hi, Good Morning, Buenos Dias, 你好, Hey, Whassup, and a few others in languages I don't know yet.
Unfortunately, I came from the "dude" generation.
" Don't tell your friends about your indigestion. ' How are you 'is a greeting, not a question. "
Arthur Guiterman
I like that!
Nasze powitanie "dzień dobry" jest już u Ciebie, z czego się bardzo cieszę. Pozdrawiam.
Our greeting "Dzień dobry" is no longer with you, out of which to be very happy. Yours.
wow, thats really something, here we just say hi, how you doing, thats it, we Canadians are a quiet bunch, I think a smile and hand shake or hug is universal,I'm a hugger
καλημέρα - reflects the current home of mine. 'moin' would be the way to greet in Northern Germany.
A wonderful entry indeed ! Please have a good new week you all.
daily athens photo
What Laurie said.. or sometimes it's "How's it goin', eh?" ;)
Hey, how are you?
How ya doin'? is the midwestern greeting, and we like a smile back. Don't let the flower jump off the lanai! DrumMajor
"How zit going" seems to be pretty common in these parts, to which the greetee responds "Pretty good".
Checked out a bunch of posts I've missed Cloudia - and especially those wonderful quotes you always seem to find.
I still like the Aloha greeting, so Aloha !
This is a great collection!
Thank you for posting this.
A wonderful post of lovely greetings.
thrilled you all got into this with me. Thanks!
Sup Sis?
LOL nuttin!
I agree that aloha is used more for tourists these days. With my son, it's always, "Hey..."
With my daughter, "How're you doing?"
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