Re: OT: The greetings problem (Re: Never violate a universal unless it seems like a good idea at the time)
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, September 5, 2003, 20:08 |
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On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 03:40:13PM -0400, Harald Stoiber wrote:
> Ooooooops! Sorry for that one. As you can easily imagine,
> I had no idea of the bad taste of "greetings". ;-)
The word "greetings" has no bad connotation for me, or for
most English speakers - just American males of a certain age.
The more important point was that it's only used for "hello",
never for "good-bye". :)
-Mark
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