Regional Greetings

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

" 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

=^.^=

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.

"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)

                          mahalo, Mauimapp.com

So what is the greeting

where YOU

live?

Tell us in 'comments'

                      Warmly, cloudia