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   No salutation at all

   

   Anonymous Coward, Aug 5th, 2003 @ 1:08am

   
   

   among frequent correspondents

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   This has happened before

   

   Anonymous Coward, Aug 5th, 2003 @ 2:07am

   
   

   In the age of telegraphy, telegraph operators invented all kinds of weird abbreviations to reduce keystrokes. Trendies back in the day inserted the weird abbreviations into their speech. The so-called digital age is repeating the same phenomenon. 99.9% of telegraph abbreviations are obsolete today. Those who insist on using the weird abbreviations of the era would sound quite foolish indeed.
   
   
   

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   The new "good-bye"

   

   August Jackson, Aug 5th, 2003 @ 6:43am

   
   

   "Smell you later."

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   One use for goodbye

   

   slim, Aug 5th, 2003 @ 6:48am

   
   

   In 2050, when the last person who still subscribes to AOL signs off for the final time after they figure out they can get the internet for $9 bucks a month instead of $24 bucks a month, that AOL guy will utter his last: "Goodbye."

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   Re: This has happened before

   

   grep, Aug 5th, 2003 @ 6:48am

   
   

   Yeah, except that in the days of telegraph, you paid by the word.

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   there's still a need!

   

   DV Henkel-Wallace, Aug 5th, 2003 @ 8:34am

   
   

   fifty years from now, he doesn't expect there to be any need whatsoever for hello and goodbye in digital communications

   Hey, in Japan I always start a phone conversation with "mush-mushi" (hi...or think of it as ASCII character 0x02 (STX -- Start of transmission)). The compression code takes a moment to start up (it's powered down until needed) so the beginning of the first syllable gets cut off.
   
   I never had an i-mode phone, but this was true with all the PHS (i.e. DoCoMo) phones...if you have one try it!
   
   And if anyone complains of you starting/ending a conversation with "hey", just tell 'em you're speaking Swedish.
   
   Hej.

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   No Subject Given

   

   Richard NC Arsehill, Aug 5th, 2003 @ 9:49am

   
   

   hello hi ola shalom

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   Written

   

   Doug, Aug 5th, 2003 @ 10:38am

   
   

   E-mail and instant messaging are written forms, while "hello" and "goodbye" are customarily used in spoken communications.

   Letters, notes, memos, and other conventional written forms rarely use "hello" and "goodbye", so it is hardly surprising that e-mail and instant messaging follow suit.

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   Goodbye To Hello In The Digital Age

   

   swapnil, Mar 19th, 2009 @ 1:16am

   
   

   digital world is a world of shortcuts we use to say hi and by nowadays this pure english has been remain for exams only, in the world of cell phones no-one use to say hello and goodbye.

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