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#1 Post by mrkelley23 » Mon Dec 03, 2007 2:05 pm

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.
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Re: Hey

#2 Post by Rexer25 » Mon Dec 03, 2007 2:09 pm

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.
Enough already. It's my fault! Get over it!

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#3 Post by MarleysGh0st » Mon Dec 03, 2007 2:09 pm

Hasn't "Hey" been Suthren for "Hi" for a long time?
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#4 Post by mrkelley23 » Mon Dec 03, 2007 2:17 pm

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'
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#5 Post by DevilKitty100 » Mon Dec 03, 2007 2:24 pm

MarleysGh0st wrote:Hasn't "Hey" been Suthren for "Hi" for a long time?
Yes, further evidence of Intelligent Design.............
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#6 Post by themanintheseersuckersuit » Mon Dec 03, 2007 2:24 pm

Unfortunately the interjection "But, Hey!" gives me an unpleasant image.
Suitguy is not bitter.

feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive

The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
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#7 Post by MarleysGh0st » Mon Dec 03, 2007 2:28 pm

themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:Unfortunately the interjection "But, Hey!" gives me an unpleasant image.
Especially after this morning's discussion of tinsel and ribbons and stuff...
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#8 Post by DevilKitty100 » Mon Dec 03, 2007 2:29 pm

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.
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#9 Post by peacock2121 » Mon Dec 03, 2007 2:44 pm

When I use my mommy voice and say "Hey (slight pause) You!" Everyone stops.

I like having that power.
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#10 Post by DevilKitty100 » Mon Dec 03, 2007 3:08 pm

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.
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#11 Post by fantine33 » Mon Dec 03, 2007 3:10 pm

Kids today...

"Tell them Gomer says hey!"

Yeah, that Pyle was real gangsta.
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#12 Post by peacock2121 » Mon Dec 03, 2007 3:10 pm

I also have a mommy look. Pealette is 38 years old and she still falls to pieces if I give her that look.
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