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What's your favorite way to greet someone?
Topic Started: Apr 2 2006, 05:20 PM (485 Views)
CrashTest
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We all walk by people we know as we go to work or class. We must then greet them as is standard in polite society. What's your favorite manner of greeting?

I will proclaim, depending on the type of personage that I am presented with:

"How do you do"

"How are you"

"Hi"

"What is it"

"How goes it"

"Hey"

"Yo"

"What's good, son"

"Holla atch yo boy"

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dolmansaxlil
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I usually go with "Hey". I'll often add "How goes it?" "How ya doin?" "How goes the battle?" or "How's it going?"
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CrashTest
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Oh, I forgot:

"What it is"

(That's only for when I wear my flavor flav gold-trimmed necklace watch.)


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CrashTest
Apr 2 2006, 09:33 PM
(That's only for when I wear my flavor flav gold-trimmed necklace watch.)


. . .probably forever stuck on 4:20 ^_^
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I usually say "hello" (which is not on your list... :tsktsk:) or "hi" and then "how are you?"
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CrashTest
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Plain "Hello" is too creepy.

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John D'Oh
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If I'm greeting a family member or close friend, 'How's it hanging' is always very amusing, particularly if they're female. The D'Oh family have spent many a happy hour laughing at the baffled stare from Grandma.

If it's a business acquaintance I prefer the more formalised 'sup, bitch, or when it's a senior manager, the more respectful 'dude'.

All of these are much less annoying than 'how are you?', which always leave me unsure as to whether a response along the lines of 'well, my knee's been playing up a bit of late' or 'actually, I'm absolutely sh!t-faced, and enjoying it enormously, your majesty' is expected.

The modern world is so complex.
What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket?
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kenny
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With a hand outstretched, "Hi, I'm Kenny."

Very clear and direct, yet friendly and disarming.
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If it's not business...."Howdy."

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Crash
 
We all walk by people we know as we go to work or class. We must then greet them as is standard in polite society.


Kenny
 
With a hand outstretched, "Hi, I'm Kenny."



Just in case they forgot you already, huh? :whome:
Sam
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kenny
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Sorry, this is for people we all ready know.

If I see them regularly I just say Hi.

If I see him or her 8 time per day I don't say anything the last 7 times.
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John D'Oh
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Oh, I forgot to add, if it's someone who works for me, or who is on a team that is doing better than mine, I just give them a stony stare and say nothing. As many of them are aware of my prediliction for slightly jokey behaviour, they will usually assume that this is some kind of jape, and slap me on the back. I then report them to Human Resources for inappropriate touching.
What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket?
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I usually just say.... "What do you want this time?"......

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Usually "Hi, how are you?"

If I know you somewhat better (and sometimes, if I slip, even if I don't know you well) "Hi, how you doin'?"
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John D'Oh
Apr 2 2006, 05:52 PM
I prefer the more formalised 'sup, bitch,

ohhhhh...PLEASE promise me that is how you will greet me if I ever have the pleasure!!! Heh...that would be great! :P
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sue
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'Hi, how are you?' generally.
When passing on the street, meeting in stores, etc., just 'hi' and a smile. :smile:
One of the great things about living in a small community. Of course, the down side of this is the expectation that we do know everybody, so there is a fair bit of fake 'Oh hi! How nice to see you' stuff, while scrambling to remember names.
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kenny
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Dwain
Apr 2 2006, 07:49 PM
Usually "Hi, how are you?"

If I know you somewhat better (and sometimes, if I slip, even if I don't know you well) "Hi, how you doin'?"

At work I usually don't bother people with a question.
This is LA.
People are busy.
I'm busy.
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An upbeat, "Wat up Dawg", usually does the trick.
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
It's all too much trouble -- it's easier to snub people unless you want something from them.
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wassup my niggaz!! my very favorite greeting ever.
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Around these parts the favorite greeting seems to be "You doin' all right?" which always struck me as rather odd and even obliquely accusatory.
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Apr 3 2006, 12:38 PM
It's all too much trouble -- it's easier to snub people unless you want something from them.

Mark and I will be out and about. For fear that I'll greet someone, he'll elbow me and whisper "No eye contact" to which I respond with a loud "WHAT?" and then he gives me the evil eye.

We've mastered not making eye contact with people. but, then, maybe they're choosing not to make eye contact with us. :shrug:
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'Sup homes.
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I usually roll over in the morning, give her a kiss on the cheek to wake her up, and say, "Hi, I'm Isaac."
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