Talk:Greeting

message: :The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposal below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 
The result of the debate was: Move succeeded.—jiy (talk) 00:01, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Requested move

message: I'm confused.  I am thinking that questions are not suitable as a greeting.  How did this custom of the question-greeting come to be and why is it tolerated?  Furthermore, in the name of order, shouldn't we eliminate such erroneous greetings from being?
:: In some languages you greet people by asking them how they are doing, etc --Codegrinder 20:47, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  question greetings 

message: I corrected and updated czechian greetings... If having some questions, contact me on Comodor W. Falkon —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 147.228.12.120 (talk) 16:10, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  update 

message: Removed "Funny how life keeps bringing us together like this" added 27 February 2007 by 60.48.81.197 not documented as a "common verbal greeting", suspected vandalism - dwboston 15:48, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  revert 

message: This article is nicely organized but I would rather prefer to see a table with the following sequence of information:
a. Language
b. Most common primary formal greeting (arriving)
c. Most common primary formal greeting (leaving)
d. Most common primary informal greeting (arriving)
e. Most common primary informal greeting (leaving)
As an example, I would prefer to see a table similar to this:
* Italian / Salve / Salve / Ciao / Ciao
* English / Hello / Bye / Hi / Bye
* Spanish / Hola / Hasta luego / Hola / Hasta luego
For a specific language, if it is possible, the greeting should be general and should be usable anytime, regardless of the time of the day.
In addition I would like to point out that Chinese (Mandarin) and Mandarin cannot coexist on the same page. They should be merged.
ICE77 -- 84.222.102.199 12:50, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Table and merge 

message: There's a bullet with "Arabic" and a bullet with "Islamic." Both have the phrases "Peace be upon you." I don't know much about Arabic so I can't tell how different the two are, but aren't the two("Arabic" and "islamic") just variants of Arabic(if not the same thing)? Shouldn't they be put together like Chinese (Cantonsese) and Chinese (Mandarin) or merged?
Talono 23:20, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: "Islamic language"

message: *Afrikaans: "Hallo" (Hello), "Goeiedag" (Good day), "Goeiemôre" (Good morning), "Goeiemiddag" (Good afternoon), ""Goeienaand" (Good evening) 
*Albanian: "tungjatjeta" (hello), "allo" (hello), "Ju falem nderit" (Thank you), "faleminderit shumë" (Thank you [very much]), "Mirë upafshim" (Good bye), Si jeni? (How are you?), "Mirëmëngjes" (Good morning), "Mirëdita" (Good afternoon), "Mirëmbrëma" (Good evening), "Po" (Yes)
*Amharic language: "tenestalling" (hello), "endemin eh/esh" (how are you? - male/female) 
*Arabic: "As-salaam Alaikum" (Peace unto you), "Marhaba" (Marhaban in Modern Standard Arabic), "Sabah El-Kheir" (Good morning), "Massa'a El-Kheir" (Good evening)
*Aramaic: "Shlama lekhon" (Peace unto you), the response is "p-shena wo beshlama", "Dekhi-wot" (How are you?) ,"Sapra breekha" (Good morning), "ramsha breekha" (Good evening)
*Armenian: "Barev" (Hello), "Bari louys" (Good morning), "Bari or" (Good afternoon), "Bari yereko" (Good evening)
*Bangla (Bengali): "Nomoskar" (Hi), "Kemon achen" (How are you), "Ki khobor" (Whats up)
*Bulgarian: "Здравей" (Hello, pron. Zdravèi), "Здрасти" (Hi, pron. Zdràsti), "Добро утро" (Good Morning, pron. Dobrò ùtro), "Добър ден" (Good Afternoon, pron. Dòbar den), "Добър вечер" (Good Evening, pron. Dòbar Vècher),  "Довиждане" (Goodbye, pron. Dovìzhdane),  "Лека нощ" (Good night, pron. Lèka nòsht)  
*Catalan: "Hola!" (Hello), "Salut!"; "Bon dia" (Good morning), "Bona tarda/Bona vesprada" (Good afternoon), "Bona nit" (Good evening and Good night)
*Chichewa: "Takulandilani" (Welcome)
*Chinese (Cantonese): "Jo San" (早晨)("Good morning"), "Sik Jo Fan Mei" (食咗飯未) (literally, have you eaten yet ? ), "Ha Lo" (哈佬) ("Hello")
*Chinese (Mandarin):  "Ni Hao"(你好) (Ni is you, Hao is good),"Zao An"（早安）or "Zao Shang Hao"(早上好)("Good Morning"),"Wan An"(晚安)("Good night")
*Czech: "Ahoj" or "Čau" (informal, Hello or Goodbye), "Dobrý den" (Good day) = universal formal greeting
::Eventually: "Dobré ráno" (Good morning), "Dobré odpoledne" (Good afternoon) "Dobrý večer" (Good evening), "Dobrou noc" (Good night)
*Croatian: "Bok" or "Bog" (informal, Hello or Goodbye), "Dobar dan" (Good day) = universal formal greeting
::Eventually: "Dobro jutro" (Good morning), "Dobra večer" (Good evening), "Laku noć" (Good night)
*Danish: "Hej" (informal), "Goddag" (God-dag, means good day), "God morgen"(Good morning), "God eftermiddag", (Good midday/afternoon), "God aften" Good evening), "Hallo" (mostly used on the telephone)
*Dutch: "Hoi", "Hé" (informal), "Hallo" (standard), "goedemorgen" (good morning), "goedemiddag" (goede+middag, lit.good midday, good afternoon), "goedenavond" (goede+avond, good evening), "gegroet" (formal and archaic, literally "begret"/"greeted").
*Fiji: "Bula" (literally "Life," or "Health"); heard constantly
*Finnish: "Hei" (Hello), "Huomenta" (Good morning), "Päivää" (Good day), "Iltaa" (Good evening), "Hyvää yötä" (Good night)
*French: "Bon jour" (Hello; lit. Good Day; and Good morning, Good afternoon), "Salut" (Hello and  Goodbye, informal), "Bon soir" (Good evening)
*German: "Hei/Hai" (cognate with Hey), "Hallo" (cognate with Hello), "Gute(n) Morgen" (Good Morning), "Gute(n) Mittag"/ (Good Midday/), "Gute(n) Abend" (Good Evening),   Gute(n) Nacht (Good Night) "Wie geht's?" (contraction of "Wie gehts es", literally How goes it?, therefore similar to What's going on?, How are things going?), or "Wie läuft es?", "Grüß Gott" (lit. Greet God, similar to English Goodbye and God be with you, from Middle English "Godbwye which is itself a corruption of the phrase God be with ye) or "Bis Spater" (cognate with "See you later").
*Greek: "Γεια" ("Gheia", pron. "ya", "hello" and "goodbye", literally "Health", quite informal), "Χαίρετε", ("Chairete", pron. "herete", same as "Gheia" but more formal, literally "Cheerly"/"May you be joyful"),  "Καλημέρα" (pron. "kalimera", "Good morning" and "Good day"), "Καλησπέρα" (pron. "kalispera", "Good evening"), "Καληνύχτα" (pron. "kalinikhta", "good night").
* Gujarati : "Khem Cho" (How are you?)
* Hawaiian: "Aloha" (affection, love, peace, compassion, mercy, goodbye, and hello)
* Hebrew: "Shalom" "שלום" (Peace) or "Shalom Aleichem" "שלום עליכם" (Peace unto you; the response is Aleichem Shalom "unto you, peace"); less formal: "Ma Nishma" "מה נשמע" or "Ma HaInyanim" "מה העיניינים" (What's new or How are you?)
* Hindi: "Namaste" (lit., salutations) "Namaskaram" (lit., "salutations"), "Pranaam" (lit., "salutations")
* Hungarian: "Szia" (Very informal, used between friends and family), "Jó napot" (Good day), Jó napot kivánok (I wish you good day, a bit more complete than jó napot), "Üdvözlünk" (A commonly used way of saying 'welcome')"Csókolom" (only used by the young when addressing elders. Signifies a sign of respect, but is becoming less popular), "Kezét csókolom" (I kiss your hand, a polite greeting used by men when addressing women), "Szevasz" or "Szervusz" (a form of Servus, it is a casual greeting and a good-bye) "Hello" (Hello!, this greeting is becoming more popular but most often it is actually used to say good-bye)
* Icelandic: "Hæ" (Hi), "Bæ" (Bye), "Góðan dag" (Good day), "Gott kvöld" (good ewening), "Góða nótt" (Good Night) (a not very common greeting unless people are going to go to sleep). "Bless" (Goodbye) a shortening of Blessaður (which standing alone is used as a welcome greeting or a goodbye), which means Blessed, often used with the word "vertu" (Be) first (though only when the blessing is used as a goodbye), "Vertu sæll" (Be happy) is used as a goodbye, but standing alone "sæll" and in the combination "komdu sæll" (come happy ) it is used as a greeting.  Sometimes these two are combined into "komdu sæll og blessaður" (Come happy and blessed) and "vertu sæll og blessaður" (Be happy and blessed) as a greeting and a goodbye respectedly.  When the words are interchanged "Blessaður og sæll" (blessed and happy) they are used as a greeting. Most of the greetings are often followed with the question, "hvað segir þú?" (what do you say) or "hvernig hefurðu það?" (how do you have it? or how are you?) (the mostly expected answer is "fínt" or "bara fínt" which means fine or just fine although it is also common to start telling something of yourself) or the more litteral question "hvað er að frétta?" (what is new? or what is in news of you?).  The adjective "jæja" (well) comes into the greeting and goodbye process frequently.
The Link for Icelandic Language leads to a page with the Title "Icelandic Language" but the content of the page is a list of cathedrals throughout the world.Rollinsondr (talk) 21:11, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Spoken (Other than English)

message: This article manages to avoid using the word "HelloBold text!"  Cool. Huw Powell (talk) 01:58, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Amazing 

message: The correct way of typing it is "'Γεια σας", or "'Γεια σου", since the correct way of saying ( thought rarely / never used ) is "Υγεια εις εσας" / "Υγεια εις εσενα" ( literally "Health to you ( formal / informal ).  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.140.30.98 (talk) 15:11, 30 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Greek Greeting 

message: This is wrongly given as an English greeting (and by implication a common one). It's used when meeting someone in Australia and perhaps New Zealand, but elsewhere it's never used when meeting someone (instead, you always specify the time of day: 'good morning', 'good afternoon' or 'good evening' - never 'good night', which is reserved for saying goodbye), and it sounds very formal or even archaic when saying goodbye.213.127.210.95 (talk) 13:30, 22 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Good day 

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