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the_alliance said:i actually wanted to take italian courses in college, but it seems that i'm gonna have my work cut out for me already. cuz i took latin in high school, so i thought i'd take italian, the closest modern day language to latin.
is it just me or do you guys get pissed off too when people say ciao for goodbye. to my understanding ciao means hello and arrivaderci (sp?) means goodbye.
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Doesn't piss me off at all- arrivederci is like saying "Goodbye" to someone- even though it's the informal version of 'goodbye' (the formal version of 'goodbye' is arrivederLa). You don't always say goodbye to friends, you say bye.
So to friends- bye (ciao)
To people you know- goodbye (arrivederci)
To people you don't know, formalish (arrivederLa)
I lived in Italy, and they all said 'ciao' for saying bye, far far far more often than I ever heard arrivederci! An especially Italian way of saying bye on the phone is to repeat 'ciao' many times. "Ciao ciao, ciao ... ciao"
You have to hear it to really get it.
Erm so short answer is no- doesn't bother me because everyone I knew said it, I followed their lead, in speaking.