Thanks for bringing it up. Next time I will use "Hello Everyone".<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 6:42 PM, David McFarlane <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mcfarla9@msu.edu" target="_blank">mcfarla9@msu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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".<br>
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Sorry to belabor this off-topic point.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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At 7/26/2012 06:33 PM Thursday, ben robinson wrote:<br>
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Yes?<br>
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On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 2:00 PM, David McFarlane <<a href="mailto:mcfarla9@msu.edu" target="_blank">mcfarla9@msu.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
> OK, I have been rereading a bunch of old E-Prime Group messages, and I just<br>
> want to get this off my chest. Many of these messages start off, "Hello<br>
> All". Am I the only native English speaker who finds this jarring?<br>
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> -- David McFarlane<br>
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