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Everyone is concerned with breaking things off, leaving, and pretty much just ending it all. Luke wants poetry to enter into the common parlance again so that a mere good-bye becomes re-imbued with its full meaning and Linnea just wants a simple professional-yet-witty email sign-off.
And in response to someone who said they like to use "cheers" as a conversational ending (for email), I just replied:
"But everyone uses "cheers." And after a while you start sounding like a laundry detergent..."
I suppose such a farewell would leave everyone with a clean slate...
Posted by funke at 17.01.07 11:00 | TrackBack | Posted to Confessions of a Grammar NaziWhat, you mean someone else uses "cheers"? Crap.
Posted by: Evan Donovan at 17.01.07 18:45Everyone says "cheers," Evan. Everyone, just everyone. :)
Posted by: funke at 17.01.07 19:00Caveat: This is in no way meant to discourage the usage of "cheers" as a conversational ending. I was just being smart-alecky. I was also being dramatic, as "everyone" in this case has an extensional meaning of..like...three people. Some day this combination will get me in trouble.
Posted by: funke at 18.01.07 19:26One of my Hawaiian friends was telling me that 'Aloha' is used whenever a sigh is appropriate. Goodbye, hello, and I love you were three instances she specifically mentioned. Foreign languages have more varied ways to say things than just good bye. But then again, we also have toodle-oo, toodles, Love, ttyl, lylas, and so on. You can make up your own closing word, too, so there.
Posted by: Krista at 20.01.07 17:30