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Old 04 May 2007, 08:48 AM
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What does this mean when used in the "Best regards" place in an e-mail?
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It's Italian for both hello and goodbye..

..end of an email it's an informal byebye..
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I think that it's also an informal goodbye in Portuguese and maybe Spanish too.

My Mrs is Brazilian and always says ciao ciao to her friends, does that mean she's saying hello-goodbye?
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Its also a useless and highly annoying website that keeps cluttering up your google results when searching for information about a particular product.
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Originally Posted by gpssti4
I think that it's also an informal goodbye in Portuguese and maybe Spanish too.

My Mrs is Brazilian and always says ciao ciao to her friends, does that mean she's saying hello-goodbye?

How to you pronounce it then?

chee-oh??
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It's used in the Czech and Slovak republics too, for both hello and goodbye.

Pronounced same as 'chow', as in 'time for chow'.
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Germans use it aswell but only for goodbye.
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Caio - Italian, can mean hello, hi or goodbye, se you sort of a general greeting.

****. chaw
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So do Brits!

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Originally Posted by David Lock
How to you pronounce it then?

chee-oh??
Chee-ow.

............. ow as in ouch, someones, just stepped on my foot
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Originally Posted by gpssti4
Chee-ow.

............. ow as in ouch, someones, just stepped on my foot
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Originally Posted by David Lock
What does this mean when used in the "Best regards" place in an e-mail?
............means that unless the person using it is foreign that they are a pretentious dick.
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It means your e-mailing a homosexual.
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Originally Posted by Wurzel
Germans use it aswell but only for goodbye.
I thought it was chus? (sounds like cheers) then again they lob in the odd servus, which is another wierd one


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