While visiting Sweden, I observed that the common greeting was (or sounded like) "Hey!" (which I suspect is spelled hej). Being the monolingual 'merican, I replied with "Hello" to cue them...

I took four years of French in high school, and about a semester of Japanese in college...I remember bits and pieces. I manage to read most romance and germanic languages with a some success (at least in the references I am trying to read), but that only goes so far...

Lingua::Romana::Perligata is a real hoot! I showed it to friends and they were rolling in the aisles in appreciation.

Me, I tend to stick with "Howdy!" these days...

yours,
Michael