๐๏ธThe Secret Meanings Behind English Greetings
์์ด ์ธ์ฌ๋ง ์์ ๋ด๊ธด ์จ์ ๋ฉ์์ง
One thing Iโve noticed about learning Korean is that thereโs basically one standard way to greet people. There are small differences depending on your relationship or region, but you can usually say the same thing every time. In English, itโs the opposite. Native speakers love variety. We get bored easily and keep inventing new ways to say hi.
์ ๊ฐ ํ๊ตญ์ด๋ฅผ ๋ฐฐ์ฐ๋ฉด์ ๋๋ ๊ฒ ์ค ํ๋๋, ์ธ์ฌํ๋ ๋ฐฉ์์ด ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ ์ผ๋ก ํ ๊ฐ์ง๋ก ์ ํด์ ธ ์๋ค๋ ๊ฑฐ์์. ๊ด๊ณ๋ ์ง์ญ์ ๋ฐ๋ผ ์ฝ๊ฐ์ ์ฐจ์ด๋ ์์ง๋ง, ๋ณดํต์ ๋งค๋ฒ ๊ฐ์ ๋ง์ ํด๋ ๋ฌด๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์์ด์. ์์ด๋ ๊ทธ ๋ฐ๋์์. ์์ด๋ฏผ๋ค์ ๋ค์ํ ํํ์ ์ข์ํ๊ฑฐ๋ ์. ๊ธ๋ฐฉ ์ง๋ฃจํดํ๊ณ ๊ณ์ ์๋ก์ด ์ธ์ฌ๋ง์ ๋ง๋ค์ด ๋ด์.
Even the classics โhelloโ and โhiโ have different nuances. โHelloโ is polite and neutral, fine for strangers or close friends, but it can sound a little formal. โHiโ feels lighter and more casual. Then thereโs โhey,โ which is even more relaxed. Depending on your tone, it can sound friendly (or rude) so itโs better with people you know.
โhelloโ์ โhiโ์ฒ๋ผ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ ์ธ ์ธ์ฌ๋ง์กฐ์ฐจ ๋์์ค๊ฐ ๋ฌ๋ผ์. โHelloโ๋ ๊ณต์ํ๊ณ ์ค๋ฆฝ์ ์ธ ํํ์ผ๋ก, ๋ฏ์ ์ฌ๋์ด๋ ์นํ ์น๊ตฌ ๋ชจ๋์๊ฒ ์ธ ์ ์์ง๋ง ์ฝ๊ฐ ํ์์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ค๋ฆด ์๋ ์์ด์. โHiโ๋ ์ข ๋ ๊ฐ๋ณ๊ณ ์บ์ฃผ์ผํ ๋๋์ด์์. โheyโ๋ ์๋๋ฐ ์ด๊ฑด ํจ์ฌ ๋ ํธํ ๋ง์ด์์. ๋งํฌ์ ๋ฐ๋ผ ์น๊ทผํ๊ฒ๋, ๋ฌด๋กํ๊ฒ๋ ๋ค๋ฆด ์ ์์ด์ ์๋ ์ฌ๋์๊ฒ๋ง ์ฐ๋ ๊ฒ ์ข์์.
Once you move beyond one-word greetings, things get more interesting. โWhatโs up?โ looks like a question, but it really just means โhi.โ Most people reply with โNot much,โ โIโm good,โ or just โWhatโs up?โ back. Itโs very casual and best for friends. โHow are you?โ is polite and common, but itโs not meant as a deep question. The usual answer is short, โIโm good, thanks.โ
ํ ๋จ์ด์ง๋ฆฌ ์ธ์ฌ๋ฅผ ๋์ด๊ฐ๋ฉด ์ ์ ๋ ์ฌ๋ฐ์ด์ ธ์. โWhatโs up?โ์ ์ง๋ฌธ์ฒ๋ผ ๋ณด์ด์ง๋ง, ์ฌ์ค์ ๊ทธ๋ฅ โ์๋
โ์ด์์. ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ๋ณดํต โNot muchโ, โIโm goodโ, ์๋๋ฉด ๊ทธ๋ฅ โWhatโs up?โ์ผ๋ก ๋๋ตํด์. ์์ฃผ ์บ์ฃผ์ผํ ํํ์ด๋ผ ์น๊ตฌ๋ผ๋ฆฌ ์ธ ๋ ๊ฐ์ฅ ์ข์์. โHow are you?โ๋ ๊ณต์ํ๊ณ ํํ ์ธ์ฌ์ง๋ง, ์ง์งํ๊ฒ ๋ฌป๋ ๋ง์ ์๋์์. ๋ณดํต์ ์งง๊ฒ โIโm good, thanks.โ๋ผ๊ณ ๋๋ตํ์ฃ .
If someone says, โHow have you been?โ though, thatโs genuine. Itโs used when you havenโt seen someone in a while and want to reconnect.
ํ์ง๋ง ๋๊ฐ โHow have you been?โ์ด๋ผ๊ณ ๋ฌป๋๋ค๋ฉด, ๊ทธ๊ฑด ์ง์ฌ์ผ๋ก ์๋ถ๋ฅผ ๋ฌป๋ ๊ฑฐ์์. ์ค๋๋ง์ ๋ณธ ์ฌ๋๊ณผ ๋ค์ ์๋ถ๋ฅผ ๋๋ ๋ ์ฐ๋ ํํ์ด์์.
English greetings arenโt just about words, they show tone, closeness, and personality. Once you understand the feeling behind them, youโll sound more natural and confident saying hi in any situation.
์์ด ์ธ์ฌ๋ง์ ๋จ์ํ ๋จ์ด๊ฐ ์๋๋ผ ๋งํฌ, ์น๋ฐ๋, ์ฑ๊ฒฉ์ ๋ณด์ฌ์ค์. ๊ทธ ์์ ๋ด๊ธด ๋๋์ ์ดํดํ๋ฉด ์ด๋ค ์ํฉ์์๋ ์์ฐ์ค๋ฝ๊ณ ์์ ์๊ฒ ์ธ์ฌ๋ฅผ ๊ฑด๋ฌ ์ ์์ ๊ฑฐ์์. |