Re: Back from Christmas

On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 06:22:45PM +0100, Jörg Rhiemeier wrote:
> Hallo!
>
> I'm back in the game.
>
> Greetings,
>
> Jörg.
Welcome back!

And I'm just curious: I've noticed several German speakers using
"greetings" as a farewell, whereas in most native varieties of English
it can only be used as a salutation.  I assume there is a cognate used
as a farewell in German?

-Mark

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