Showing posts with label General Knowledge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label General Knowledge. Show all posts

Thursday, March 01, 2007

R.S.V.P

Penah nampak perkataan atau shortform "R.S.V.P."? Selalu nampak word ni kat invitations tapi tak penah tau maksud sebenarnya cuma agak-agak "Reply Please" la lebih kurang.

Okay, bila dicari dalam search engine, rupanye R.V.S.P. tu "Respondez, s'il vous plait" in French.

Ooohhh......

Friday, September 08, 2006

Good morning or Good afternoon or Good evening or Good night?

1. "Good morning" (Jap: "Ohayo gozaimasu") can be used for any time between midnight and noon, but
the times for "Good afternoon" (Jap:"Konnichiwa") and "Good evening" (Jap:"Konbanwa") are not exact. Generally,
"Good afternoon" is used between noon and sundown and "Good evening" is
used until it's completely dark.

2. The greeting after dark is a problem because "Good night" (Jap:"Oyasuminasai") is not a greeting:
its meaning is something like "Goodbye" (Jap:"Sayonara"). When people greet each other after
dark, they generally say something like "Hello".

3. When people say "Good morning" or "Good evening" in a very casual, friendly
way, they often say something that sounds like "G' mornin'" or "Gd evenin'"
with a kind of "muffled" or "reduced" pronunciation of "Good" and with a change
in the last sound of "morning" and "evening" (from the "ng" sound to the "n" sound).