26th September - European Day of Languages! How do you say "Hello" in your language?

Well, American's an offshoot of european. We say "hi", "'sup", or "howdy, ya goddamn sonsabitch!"

 

officialy it should be ''bog''. it comes from ''god [bog] bless'' or ''let god gives you long life [bog te pozivio]''. in the recent past it was shorten in ''god [bog]'' like when you say only ''morning'' or ''evening'' withou ''good''. then through the local dialect in zagreb it was transformed in ''bok'', and then in last 20 years accepted in all regions of croatia for unofficial and most popular greeting. whenever you see in translation greeting ''bog'' it's work of stiff and incompetent translator who tries to transform everyday language from movie into official language.

da, ipak je bok

 

thanks bog te pozivio!

 

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peace

 

i say in danish: hej dav

 

Ayup! - Lancashire

 

servus, draga, servus!

 

Wow, that sounds awesome... Well atleast if you prenounce it like I want you to

 

in estonian it is "tere" or "terevist", but more common is just "hej"...

 

I just forgot, amost my friends we just say æå

 

omg i tried to pronounce that it's just imposssible

 

Æå, fåwks.

 

tried to pronounce it AGAIN

 

How did you pronounce it? Spell it out phonetic.

"servus, draga, servus"... that sound latin or something...

 

this ''draga'' means ''darling'' in croatian and similar languages in this region

where are you from, gulfwind?

 

What does "servus" mean then? Does it mean "to serve" or "to please", or something like that? "I please you, my darling, I please you"..?

love and understanding,

=wolf=

 

''servus'' is latin word ''to serve'' or in case of archaic greeting means ''at your service''. in 30's here in zagreb among local more educated friends common greeting was ''servus, amice'' [''at your service, my friend''], later in zagreb's lingo it was transformed in ''serbus'' and everybody started to use that greeting until the end of ww2 when suddenly was frowned on that and similar ''old-town''
expressions as ''burgoaistic'' (sp?). now when croatia is once again independent state you can hear that greeting again but wery scarce and only from old people originally born in zagreb

 

I find it pretty easy

you really just say æ then å... æå

 

Thanks for that explanation.

So, "burgoaistic" is an expression for a fellow that origins from the meaning of a "citizen", and therefore people frowned during the communist era, in which expressions connected to meaning of "people" or "comrade" was more common and accepted?

Was latin some kinda secret language of rebellish intellectuals?

I don't speak latin myself, but I guess "amice" mean the same as the spanish "amigo".

 

but how do you say those?!