Talk:Greeting

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[edit] Requested move

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)

Greeting habits→Greeting: The simpler term is preferable. "Greeting habits" yields 396 results in Google, so it is not some formalized sociology term.—jiy (talk) 23:38, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Voting

  • Support—jiy (talk) 23:38, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Support. The content is what I would expect at Greeting, no need for a different term. Kusma (talk) 23:47, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
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[edit] question greetings

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)

[edit] update

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).

[edit] revert

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)

[edit] Table and merge

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)

[edit] "Islamic language"

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)