Great Greetings!
Nice to meet you – we all know this as the standard way of greeting a new acquaintance. We can also say pleased to meet you, great to meet you, or even it’s a pleasure to meet you which sounds very formal and would be perfect for that first introduction to the company’ new CEO. It works equally well at that first meeting with your potential mother-in-law, if you really want to make a good impression. But beware, these expressions are only used for initial contact. After that, we say nice to see you again or it’s lovely to see you again or something like that, but important here is the use of see and not meet.
With close friends or colleagues you can say I haven’t seen you in ages, Long time no see or even ‘Hello, stranger!’ which really means where have you been all this time? Or why haven’t you been here lately?
And finally, what about the greeting How do you do? (The answer for which, strangely, is how do you do?) Do people actually use it today? Not really. It sounds very old-fashioned. Stick to nice to meet you and you can’t go wrong.
That’s all from me. Don’t be a stranger!
Acquaintance a slight knowledge or friendship with someone
Pleasure a feeling of satisfaction or enjoyment
CEO Chief Executive Officer
Mother-in-law the mother of one’s husband or wife
Stranger a person you do not know or are not familiar with
Actually the truth or facts of a situation. really
Old-fashioned in a style no longer current or common. Not modern
Stick to/with persevere or continue
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