When you want to sound important...

Wednesday, April 14. 2004

When you want to sound important...

...use Latin or Greek salutations and closings. This page names a few and shows examples on how to use them. I especially like the "salutem plurimam dicit" and the "cura ut valeas" phrases, since they're even elite within Latin, where "salve""and "vale" are commonly used (well, at least when I had to learn latin in school).

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ave ave ave - i greet you, grandfather with the bird!
no, latin greetings, are really uncool - greek ones do have a geek value, but still are not really sounding like you are a philosopher... si tacuisses philosophus mansisses.

#1 mp (Homepage) on 2004-04-15 01:55 (Reply)

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