Note, if you will, the demotic greeting "mate", used by one male when meeting another, irrespective of any actual friendship, and increasingly placed at the beginning of a sentence for particular emphasis.
People were still straggling in through the first half, prompting that kiss and all manner of cheery greetings: "Welcome, mate.
They typically disdain the pompous and ostentatious, and they are often characterized as informal and "laid back," an impression fostered by the typical and now internationally recognized greeting among "mates" and "sheilas": G'day (Good day).
If you are lucky, Dolores D'Ambrosio, the self-described Queen of Queens crabbing (her answering machine yells the greeting "Ahoy, Mates!"), will tell you a thing or two about trapping, hooking and cooking the creatures you seek.
E-mail and video greetings to your mate flash on the monitor in the Screenfridge's door.
An osprey's high pitched greeting signals a mate and they switch tending their nest.
— It is hard to imagine Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential candidate, sauntering into a hot-dog restaurant and having an elderly, white-haired woman shout, "Hey, kick some tail!" That is the greeting his new running mate, Paul D. Ryan, got in Ohio this week, though the woman's language was saltier.
During the culture, pairs of H. erectus had short greeting and re-mating durations before or after each copulation, which significantly improved the reproductive rate.
On December 3rd, 1992 in the little town of Newbury, Berkshire, a UK programmer sent his best mate a few lines of greeting using a unique new technique called Short Messaging Service.
In other odd news, here's Iker Casillas greeting his old team-mate (Brazilian) Ronaldo at the Ballon D'or awards ceremony, Arsène Wenger struggling to do up his coat – perhaps he should put his hands in his pocket – and Danny Amendola illustrating that celebrations are all fun and games until someone gets an eye knocked out.
Go the Leos!" David's an Australian in Germany, which justifies his use of the word "mate," and the fact that his birthday greeting hit me on Facebook before the actual day.
