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[ilunga]

Is it just me or are there more 'hi's in the air lately. The 'hu looooo' count seems to be dropping. Can anyone explain it? I quite like it.

[acjade]

Nope. Not in Xi'an. The hu loooooo still polls the most here. But is change in the air? And what's caused it?

[gengrant]

what's caused it?

global warming...

[con's fly is open]

In my school, yes: I put it around that cool kids say "Hi" and the hippest say "Hey". I put a similar curse on "I am fine, and you?"

In the field, though, "Hallo!" still reigns.

[Decurso]

I also am on a crusade to stamp out"Fine thanks,how are you?".Every class I teach gets a ten minute lesson on alternative answers to "how are you?"The school is amused and confused by this.But I am happy to say that now when I ask students how they are I hear a lot of "I'm OK","I'm tired","I'm hungry" ect.Call it a little victory.

[Raoul Duke]

Good one, DeC!
My crusade is against "and so on," a cop-out I don't allow in my classes...

[con's fly is open]

Dec, I just did the same! in one class, if they ever say "Hello" "fine" or "you're welcome" they have to sing a song.

Yeah, Raoul, my high school grads abused "and so on" shamelessly, just using it to end a sentence, and so on. Man, I'm getting burned out teaching ever single day, being ambushed with new students and classes, and so on. Four things I'm gonna do on vacation: travel, drink too much, clean my poohole of a room, and change my whole daily routine. And so on.

[Canuck]

I jump on "is so so"...