Hello All

[David McFarlane]

Well, while on vacation last week I did an informal survey among 
family members, all native English (USA northern midwestern) 
speakers.  None of the four adults had ever used the greeting "Hello 
All", and never heard it spoken, but they had seen it in e-mails at 
work and found nothing remarkable about the expression (but these are 
the same relatives who say "usually always" to mean simply either 
"usually", "often", or "always").  Two college-age youths had never 
encountered the expression at all, and held no opinion about it.

Then later that night, as I left the campfire to turn in, without 
thinking at all I casually said "Goodnight All", and realized that I 
commonly use that as a parting expression to groups.  So even I use a 
variant of "Hello All", and it seems that my startle-response to the 
expression is unfounded.


Sorry for polluting the Group with my off-topic musings.  Back to 
E-Prime stuff...

-- David McFarlane


At 7/26/2012 07:45 PM Thursday, Yan Yu wrote:
>Thanks for bringing it up. Next time I will use "Hello Everyone".
>
>On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 6:42 PM, David McFarlane 
><<mailto:mcfarla9 at msu.edu>mcfarla9 at msu.edu> wrote:
>Well, maybe it is just me.  But I have been in a lot of places over 
>a lot of time, and participated in many online discussion groups, 
>and this is the only place where I have repeatedly encountered 
>"Hello All" as a substitute for "Hello Everybody" or "Hello Everyone".
>
>Sorry to belabor this off-topic point.
>
>-- David McFarlane
>
>
>
>At 7/26/2012 06:33 PM Thursday, ben robinson wrote:
>Yes?
>
>On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 2:00 PM, David McFarlane 
><<mailto:mcfarla9 at msu.edu>mcfarla9 at msu.edu> wrote:
> > OK, I have been rereading a bunch of old E-Prime Group messages, and I just
> > want to get this off my chest.  Many of these messages start off, "Hello
> > All".  Am I the only native English speaker who finds this jarring?
> >
> > -- David McFarlane

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