Showing posts with label parting traditions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label parting traditions. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

good goodbyes





Taken from someone else's chat...I hope this is legal.


Ciao, au revoir, adieu, ahnyeongheegaseyo...I'm pretty certain every language has a way to signal and mark the parting of ways.

Welcome to the grey area of electronic communications.

Not to make this post about netiquette, but I've been adjusting recently to the fact that most of the people I gchat with (and I don't usually gchat) don't formally end the chat. That's actually somewhat of a relief since I've never been good at that anyway (whether it's on the phone or over the internet, "alright, talk to you later" just doesn't seem as sincere as I'd like it to be). Still, it strikes me as kind of odd that saying "goodbye" could be becoming an option rather than an expectation in daily life

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