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Thread: Chinese greeting: " Have you eaten already?"
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[quote=DESTRUCKDOZ,250811]Hey whats up, Here in the west it would sound weird. Most greetings you get from strangers on the street or anywhere is "Hey how ya doing?" or "Hi" or my personal favorites (and use myself) are "Hey, hows it going?" or my signature "Hey whats up" but the latter is used amongst people you see all the the like at the gym but don't personally know them (I like it better because sometimes asking somebody how there doing just makes them talk about whats troubling them currently and it can get pretty awkward at times where as "whats up" is more positive,at least for me). I explain a little because it is going to be really weird if a person was like "Have you eaten yet". I personally have had my white friends get bummed out when I tell them "LOL man there not asking you out to lunch or dinner". When I was much younger where I learned American culture before my own that If the question was asked, I thought they meant I was too skinny because I have not eaten much. Nowadays I hear a lot of "Ne Ho Ma?"(How are you) or "Yo Chue Mun Guen Ne"(its been a long time) and "Ba Lao Mei Ho Ma?" (Hows Dad and Mom, usually from the elderly who greet the young) Iceblue, Do you know of any Chinese goodbyes? I only know of one and its kind of wierd to say it kind of goes like this: "Hai Ca Cam Tho Wo"(I know its hard to figure out what it is) but it if I were to say it in English, It would be like this: "Ok that is all for now" Danny[/quote]
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