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excellency

Feb 1st, 2010 10:47 am

alteration

Hello everybody,
I want to ask you that do you have some other words or phrases instead of "hello","hi" and "how are you"?can you inform me as much as you know.
thank in advance.

susan53

Feb 1st, 2010 11:14 am

Re: alteration

Where I'm from (South London), the most usual greeting if, for example, you meet your neighbour in the street is "All right?"

Dave-B

Mar 22nd, 2010 09:21 pm

Re: alteration

Hey

How's it going?

How are things?

What's up?

bread_baker

Mar 23rd, 2010 02:46 pm

Re: alteration

Some of what Dave B wrote is considered informal.

Dave-B

Mar 24th, 2010 08:06 am

Re: alteration

Yes, what I wrote is informal. Most of the different greetings are informal because for a formal greeting there aren't many variations:

Hello. How are you?
Hi, nice to meet you.
Good morning
Good afternoon.

Want some really informal ones?

What's crackin?
What's goin on?
What's new?
What's shakin?

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