¿En inglés hay muchas maneras de decir "hola" correcta?

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He oído que en Inglés hay muchas maneras de decir hola correcta? En español todo lo que tenemos es uno. Me pregunto si esto es verdad y Inglés es mejor que español? gracias gente¡¡¡¡¡

¿Hello, is there way to speak hello more then one? thank you.

Posted Nov 2, 2010
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ian-hill

How's things?

What's up?

How are you doing?

What's cooking?

Of course you can say the following:

Good morning

Good afternoon.

Good evening.

Good night is almost always = goodbye.

Nov 3, 2010
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KevinB

This user got a little over-enthusiastic last night and is no longer with us.

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?So we should focus on the many ways to say good bye? - nizhoni1 Nov 3, 2010 flag

:-) - KevinB Nov 3, 2010 flag

You do a good job Kevin. - margaretbl Nov 3, 2010 flag

Thanks. I try to keep things tidy. - KevinB Nov 3, 2010 flag

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hancoop

sí puedes decir: Hello Hi Hey Yo (cuando personas hablan en argot) Sup (es como "what is up" o que pasa)

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samdie

It depends on how literal-minded you want to be. 'Hola!' is a greeting, pure and simple and the only real equivalents [that come to mind] in English are 'Hello!' and 'Hi!') It doesn't ask after ones health/news/changes. It doesn't, in fact ask for any additional information.

Of course, the common alternatives, "¿Qué tal?", "¿Cómo estás?", "¿Quebole?", "¿Qué honda?", etc. etc. are not real questions anymore than the English equivalents ("Howdy" [How do you do?], "What's up?", "What's new?", "How's it goin'?") which are real questions (grammatically) but in their use do not ask real questions. They are simply ways of recognizing/acknowledging the presence/non-stranger status of the other person.