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04-11-2010, 08:02 AM
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In Indonesian we simply say "Halo!" or "Hai!". Basically just like in English. |
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01-03-2011, 11:30 PM
Ah, greetings everyone!
Mhmm... I'm from Latvia and here we say 'Sveiki!' (Hello), 'Čau!' (Ciao - both hello & goodbye), 'Labrīt!'(Good morning), 'Labdien!' (good day/good afternoon), 'Labvakar!' (good evening), 'Ar labu nakti!' (good night - technically this isn't a greeting but who cares)... 'Atā' & 'Uz redzēšanos' (Goodbye) Alright, that's about it... |
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01-03-2011, 11:42 PM
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(alright... that was pretty random, I'm aware of that.) everything is relative and contradictory ~
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01-08-2011, 05:55 AM
I'm from Wales, and our native language is Welsh!
In Welsh, there isn't really a word for 'hello' We use: Bore da - Good Morning P'nawn da - Good Afternoon Noswaith da - Good Night And just as a little side-word, this is the longest word in the Welsh language, it's the name of a train station: Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch Look it up if you don't believe me. |
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02-06-2011, 12:46 PM
I too am from America so it would be Hi, Hello and Hey (though Hey is informal and depends on the tone when spoken) and waving
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that's an interesting fact, thank you. I think the longest word in English (or American English anyway) i think is a medical term: Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. (But it is sometimes debated) P.S I spelled that from memory. |
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02-09-2011, 07:08 PM
I'm from Sweden and the most common way to say hi would be "hej" (hey).
Then of course you have to more casual "tja" (sha) or "tjena" (shena, with the e pronounced as the e(a) in "ear"), and "hallå", which is used for answering the phone. Aaaaand then there's the more old fashioned greetings like Good day - God dag Good afternoon - God (efter)middag Good evening - God kväll Been lurking for some time now (mouahaha, I've got my eyes on you...), but I haven't really seen any other Swedes. Am I really the only (from now on) active Swede, or are they all just hiding? Or maybe they went into hibernation due to the bloody cold... Mumford and Sons - Awake My Soul "We can hope for the future, but there may not be one." Dream Theater - A Change of Seasons |
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