G R E E T I N G S

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The way I say "Hello" and "nice to meet you" is a kind of Greetings.  Greetings are very important thing in our life. It's impossible to greet the unknown-people with say their name firstly, or doing something with your movement to them. It's a very unpolite act. 

Don't do it okay?!!

            Let's be a polite person from learning this :D

Greeting is an act of communication in which human beings (as well as other members of the animal kingdom) intentionally make their presence known to each other, to show attention to, and to suggest a type of relationship or social status between individuals or groups of people coming in contact with each other. While greeting customs are highly culture- and situation-specific and may change within a culture depending on social status and relationship, they exist in all known human cultures. Greetings can be expressed both audibly and physically, and often involve a combination of the two. This topic excludes military and ceremonial salutes but includes rituals other than gestures.

• Expressions to greet people are :

-          Hi !

-          Hello !

-          Ho are you ?

-          Good morning

-          Good afternoon

-          How do you do ? (for the first time you meet someone)

-          How are things with you ?

-          How is life ?

• To response from greeting someone you can use :

-          Hi !

-          Hello !

-          Not bad, thanks. and you ?

-           Nice you meet you too

-          Pretty good, thanks

-          Morning too

-          How do you do ?

Ways to greet

A. Written english

By convention, formal letters in English commence with the salutation "Dear" followed by the name or title of the recipient. If the name or title of the recipient is unknown, then it is conventional to write "Dear Sir," or "Dear Madam," or where the sex of the recipient is also unknown, "Dear Sir/Madam," or "Dear Sir or Madam" is used. In other forms of written communication (such as fax or email), or in informal messages the salutation is often absent or replaced with a personal variant. For example, "Hello". "Goodbye". "Salutations". "You know?"

B.Gesture

example:

• hand shake
• bowing
• waving
• hug
• cheek kissing

C.Voice mail greetings

Voicemail greetings are pre-recorded messages that are automatically played to callers, when the voicemail system answers the call. Some voicemail systems allow for different greetings to be played to different callers.

D.Telephone greetings

Most languages have alternate greetings to be used over the telephone. In this case, the greeting is meant to confirm whether the person on the other line is present.

The term "greeting" may also refer to a pre-recorded message replayed when the call cannot be answered.