Good day instead of hello?

Molly · Tue Jun 17, 2008 1:05 am *Good day instead of hello?*

Interesting:

Similarly, g'day, a stereotypical Australian greeting, is no longer synonymous with "good day" in other varieties of English (it can be used at night time) and is never used as an expression for "farewell", as "good day" is in other countries.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_English

Ralf · Tue Jun 17, 2008 1:07 am *Good day instead of hello?*

Molly · Tue Jun 17, 2008 1:08 am *Good day instead of hello?*

Ralf · Tue Jun 17, 2008 1:13 am *Good day instead of hello?*

Molly · Tue Jun 17, 2008 1:19 am *Good day instead of hello?*

Ralf · Tue Jun 17, 2008 1:24 am *Good day instead of hello?*

Haihao · Tue Jun 17, 2008 3:20 am *Good day instead of hello?*

I would like to place another two cents hereby on 'good day' because I feel the expression in reality is far more deeply interwoven than its seeming simplicity in both horizontal and vertical dimensions with both historical and geographical aspections (I can't help laughing at myself for this nannyish talking Very Happy

) and the lengthened discussion on it has already given conclusive evidence to it and its profoundness. As Jamie suggested earlier, it could be retroactive to as early as 19th century, and as others indicated, it could be broad-based to as far as virtually every corner of the earth and as finely built as hairs of toothbrush.

Well, what I am trying to say is, IMHO many languages, not only European but also Asian, could have some relations to the expression, such as German, for example, isn’t Gutentak a Goodday? Many other examples, I guess.

O this almighty phrase is also a hypermultiallweathermixotrophic combination of good morning, good afternoon, good evening and good night; 24 hours 7 days a week.

Molly · Tue Jun 17, 2008 6:56 am *Good day instead of hello?*

Jamie (K) · Tue Jun 17, 2008 7:12 am *Good day instead of hello?*

I don't think we need any more of your dirty jokes, Molly.

Molly · Tue Jun 17, 2008 7:24 am *Good day instead of hello?*

??! You don't know what a vibrating toothbrush is, Jamie?

Jamie (K) · Tue Jun 17, 2008 11:42 am *Good day instead of hello?*

Don't play stupid. Someone mentioned electric toothbrushes, and you brought up vibrators.

Molly · Tue Jun 17, 2008 11:49 am *Good day instead of hello?*

If it were vibrators, why would you be embarrassed to talk about them? We all seem to be adults. Have you never used one? A vibrator, that is, and not an adult. Wink

Jamie (K) · Tue Jun 17, 2008 11:57 am *Good day instead of hello?*

We're not all adults in this forum.

Molly · Tue Jun 17, 2008 12:10 pm *Good day instead of hello?*

Really? Where are the kids and how old are they?

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