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Hey
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 2:05 pm
by mrkelley23
Have you stopped to consider what a useful word "hey" has become?
On this bored, it is a cue to a semi-private message -- directed at one person, but not a secret to the rest of the community, i.e. "Hey, Pea!"
In teen lingo, at least in these parts, it has practically replaced "Hi" as the monosyllabic greeting grunt of choice.
This in addition to all the other uses it has historically had.
I think I like it.
Re: Hey
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 2:09 pm
by Rexer25
mrkelley23 wrote:
In teen lingo, at least in these parts, it has practically replaced "Hi" as the monosyllabic greeting grunt of choice.
Don't tell the teens in your area, but I know people who've been using Hey as a standard greeting sine I was a teen, about XX years ago.
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 2:09 pm
by MarleysGh0st
Hasn't "Hey" been Suthren for "Hi" for a long time?
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 2:17 pm
by mrkelley23
MarleysGh0st wrote:Hasn't "Hey" been Suthren for "Hi" for a long time?
Since at least "To Kill a Mockingbird," anyway.
Which is the same thing as 2000 Mockingbirds, in metric units, don't ya know.
Just sayin'
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 2:24 pm
by DevilKitty100
MarleysGh0st wrote:Hasn't "Hey" been Suthren for "Hi" for a long time?
Yes, further evidence of Intelligent Design.............
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 2:24 pm
by themanintheseersuckersuit
Unfortunately the interjection "But, Hey!" gives me an unpleasant image.
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 2:28 pm
by MarleysGh0st
themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:Unfortunately the interjection "But, Hey!" gives me an unpleasant image.
Especially after this morning's discussion of tinsel and ribbons and stuff...
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 2:29 pm
by DevilKitty100
themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:Unfortunately the interjection "But, Hey!" gives me an unpleasant image.
Those words usually preface two similar words. "But, hey......butthead." Not that they've ever been uttered to me, of course.
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 2:44 pm
by peacock2121
When I use my mommy voice and say "Hey (slight pause) You!" Everyone stops.
I like having that power.
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 3:08 pm
by DevilKitty100
peacock2121 wrote:When I use my mommy voice and say "Hey (slight pause) You!" Everyone stops.
I like having that power.
lol....That "mommy voice" can move mountains. Not only does it corral rowdy children and misbehavin' puppies, it can bring full grown men to their knees. It could probably stop the world's natural rotation in its tracks if enough mommies said it in unison. I love the mommy voice.
I also love how "deliberately disobedient" has become board vernacular.
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 3:10 pm
by fantine33
Kids today...
"Tell them Gomer says hey!"
Yeah, that Pyle was real gangsta.
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 3:10 pm
by peacock2121
I also have a mommy look. Pealette is 38 years old and she still falls to pieces if I give her that look.