LL-L "Idiomatica" 2010.02.07 (01) [EN]

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From: Roger Thijs, Euro-Support, Inc. <roger.thijs at euro-support.be>
Subject: LL-L Greetings



I recently had some thoughts about greetings.



I'm doing a project in the Namur area in Wallonia, and the classical
greeting procedure in the morning is:



First person: "*Bonjour, ça va?"*

Second person: depending on the relationship "*Et toi?"* or "*Et vous?".*

Nobody waits for an eventual answer for any of these questions, when meeting
in the morning.



When leaving in the evening the standard is "*Bonne soirée*" ("soirée"
denotes a time period while "soir" denotes a moment)



In my Limburgish the standard when meeting was "*Doag *+ Name".

In Vliermaal the standard when leaving was "*Had oech gowd*".

In Schalkhoven, a mile to the East, the formula when leaving was "*Dzjus* +
name", probalby related to the German "Tschüs"



When asking "*Wai és het?"* (Hoe is het? Hoe gaat het? How are things?) one
could expect a reply of up to 10 minutes, so I would not recommend it when
in a hurry.



I once did a summer job in Essen Germany. The standard greeting was "*
Mahlzeit*" from the morning till about 2 pm.



How about other LL area's? "*Moin, moin*" and others.

Regards,

Roger

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