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apprentice
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| Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 9:44 pm
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Do you handshake or do you only bow?
What about your friends families bosses?
I am asking because we have just read and article in my reading classes at
Warsaw University dealing with this custom.
Regards,
Pawel
Poland
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Einde O'Callaghan
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| Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 10:35 pm
Post subject: Re: how d'u feel about handshake? |
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apprentice wrote:
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Do you handshake or do you only bow?
What about your friends families bosses?
I am asking because we have just read and article in my reading classes at
Warsaw University dealing with this custom.
I believe the only time when protocol demands a bow as a greeting in |
Britain today is when you're introduced to the Queen - that's for men,
women should curtsey (spelling? I rarely if ever use the word). Usually
people shake hands when they first meet, when they meet again after a
long time, when they are saying goodbye for a long time and when they
strike a deal.
Regards, Einde O'Callaghan |
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Phil C.
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| Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 10:50 pm
Post subject: Re: how d'u feel about handshake? |
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On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 16:35:14 +0100, Einde O'Callaghan
<einde.ocallaghan@planet-interkom.de> wrote:
| Quote: | apprentice wrote:
Do you handshake or do you only bow?
What about your friends families bosses?
I am asking because we have just read and article in my reading classes at
Warsaw University dealing with this custom.
I believe the only time when protocol demands a bow as a greeting in
Britain today is when you're introduced to the Queen - that's for men,
women should curtsey (spelling? I rarely if ever use the word). Usually
people shake hands when they first meet, when they meet again after a
long time, when they are saying goodbye for a long time and when they
strike a deal.
Regards, Einde O'Callaghan
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Kissing on the cheek is also becoming increasingly popular when men
meet or depart from women in informal circumstances but the social
"rules" seem rather fluid - whether to kiss or not, which cheek to
start with, how many kisses. It leads to much uncertainty - rather
like deciding how to address people in different contexts.
--
Phil C.
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Paul Burke
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| Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 3:38 pm
Post subject: Re: how d'u feel about handshake? |
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apprentice wrote:
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Do you handshake or do you only bow?
What about your friends families bosses?
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I must repeat the good advice given to a visitor from abroad:
"When introduced to a Duke, grasp him firmly in the groin, twist, and
say 'How's things, you old bastard?'"
Paul Burke |
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Nick Wagg
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| Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 5:29 pm
Post subject: Re: how d'u feel about handshake? |
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"apprentice" <mailpawel@wp.pl> wrote in message
news:f2d7e$439c3b80$d4ba586d$20262@news.chello.pl...
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Do you handshake or do you only bow?
What about your friends families bosses?
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When meeting or parting:
I always kiss and hug my mother.
I usually kiss and/or hug my father.
I occasionally kiss my brothers but usually hug them or
shake hands.
I always kiss and sometimes hug female relatives and
close female friends of the family and of my in-laws.
I always shake my father- and brother-in-laws hands
and usually those of any other male relatives.
Other friends I greet with varying degrees of familiarity as suits
them.
I usually greet colleagues (whether peers, bosses or cleaning
staff) on arrival and departure but would only shake hands if I
had not seen them in a long time.
In a business context, I would normally shake hands when
introduced to someone and usually on parting.
Protocol demands that I bow to the Queen and shake her hand if
she were to initiate the gesture, but I have never yet met her and,
since I am a Republican, whether or not I would comply would
depend on how well-mannered I were feeling at the time or
whether I wished to deliberately cause offence. |
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