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The verbal bow you give before asking someone for something.
means A greeting or opening expression of goodwill — spoken, written, or gestured — used to acknowledge someone at the start of an encounter.
from From Latin salutare, 'to greet, wish health to,' itself rooted in salus, meaning health, safety, or welfare. The same root gives us 'salute,' 'salubrious,' and 'salvation' — all carrying that old sense of wishing someone well-being. A salutation, then, is literally a small verbal wish for your health, dressed up as politeness before the actual request begins.
- letter etiquette
- Dear comma, then the awkward part
- linguistic root
- Latin salutare, literally to wish health
- email inflation
- Hope this finds you well means nothing
- social function
- Buys goodwill before the actual request lands