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hillbilly cat
Apr 1, 2007 21:57
17 yrs ago
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English term

clear day hi

Not for points English Other Slang greeting
Hello all,
I'm translating some email correspondence between British people and this expression is a first for me. I take it it's simply a friendly greeting, but could anyone confirm and maybe explain where this phrase comes from?
Thanks
Responses
4 +6 <html background "clear day"> hi ...
3 -2 Just a greeting

Discussion

Els Spin Apr 2, 2007:
I do not pretend to know whether Brie is right or not - I did find some messages where Clear Day Hi WAS printed in the message itself. In those cases it might just as easily have been a computer mistake. But I did have great fun doing my research!
Els Spin Apr 1, 2007:
"Clear day" appears to be ice hockey-related. (Clear day rosters). The explanation: Anyone placed on waivers Tuesday at 3 p.m., the deadline for NHL teams to get down to 23 men for the last time, would clear waivers today. Hence, "clear day."
Els Spin Apr 1, 2007:
http://au.groups.yahoo.com/group/tell-n-sell/messages/201?vi...
I have just checked on Google, and it appears to be used quite a lot. 'Clear day hello' is also used. I have never heard of it. But it IS a friendly greeting :-) Sort of: good day?
Kim Metzger Apr 1, 2007:
Punctuation is missing, I'd say. Clear day. Hi, Fred.
Buzzy (asker) Apr 1, 2007:
To Kim: Sorry, forgot to specify: No it's not in a sentence, it's all on its own at the start of the message: simply "Clear day hi Fred" where I might have expected "hello Fred", "dear Fred", or equivalent. Then a blank line, then the message itself "Thanks for...." I did wonder if the writer had accidentally pasted the words "Clear Day" at the beginning of his message without realising... but Google evidence suggests the phrase is used just like "hi".
Kim Metzger Apr 1, 2007:
Doesn't the phrase occur in a sentence? Is it an isolated phrase? The sentence before and after would also help.

Responses

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47 mins
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<html background "clear day"> hi ...

It's quite obvious when you actually look at the hits Google offers that this is a remant from some html code. It is not a new form of greeting. Just google "Clear Day Bkgrd.JPG" and look at the images to see what it is.

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Note added at 50 mins (2007-04-01 22:47:17 GMT)
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Also, if you look at the individual hits for "clear day hi", you will see that the *actual* messages do not begin with "clear day", but rather simply "hi".

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Note added at 3 hrs (2007-04-02 01:39:35 GMT)
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Buzzy, if you click on Els' link, you will see a list of messages posted to Yahoo! groups. If you click on any of the messages that begin with "Clear day" (including the second one, which begins "clear day wrecking", as if that would be enough of a clue ...), you will see what I mean about the background (e.g. the first one: http://au.groups.yahoo.com/group/tell-n-sell/message/201), and the message text itself does not actually include "clear day". Please don't be led astray by anyone who tries to suggest that it is (part of) a common English greeting.

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Note added at 3 hrs (2007-04-02 01:56:44 GMT)
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Sorry, should have been "as if that *wouldn't* be enough ..."
Note from asker:
Hello Brie, for some reason the question has closed without showing my message of thanks, so here it is again. I would never have worked this out without your help, even though I thought there was something odd about it! Certainly makes translating it more straightforward... (and by the way, thanks to all who took some time to help).
Peer comment(s):
disagree Alexander Demyanov : 1.There are plenty of hits on the greeting without any markup. 2. Where did you see such html tag? I've never seen the background attribute used as an attribute of the html tag//Why don't you look at Els' link, for example?//And what about your html?
2 hrs
1) No, there aren't. If you put the phrase in quot. marks, there are merely 186 hits on google, of which only 22 are considered somewhat unique, every single one of which is from a post to some kind of message board, e.g. http://tinyurl.com/34eyzs
agree ErichEko ⟹⭐
4 hrs
Thanks, Erich
agree Tony M : Well spotted, Brie! Yes indeed, it is just spurious text resulting from HTML code-stripping / If anyone still needs convincing, try Googling "citrus punch hi"
5 hrs
Thanks, Dusty
agree Hakki Ucar : in my opinion;clear day was an image couldn't be displayed due to it is not here anymore
8 hrs
Thanks, Hakki
agree Peter Shortall
9 hrs
Thanks, Peter
agree writeaway : makes a lot more sense than ice hockey-heaven keep me away from any texts to do with HTML ;-)
13 hrs
Thanks, writeaway
agree Alfa Trans (X)
14 hrs
Thank you, Marju
agree Will Matter : Good job. Nice new pic. Wie gehts?
15 hrs
Arigato, Will ... hanging in there : ) And you?
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-2
3 hrs

Just a greeting

I believe this is just the way the author modifies the greeting.
Possibly means "On a clear day, hi", but not necessarily.

There are some hits on other people using the same greeting with or without punctuation.
Peer comment(s):
disagree Brie Vernier : Please see above, and please do your research before disagreeing
9 mins
Please restrict your comments to linguistinc matters at hand, Brie//So, what do you have to say on the merits of my suggestion? I.e. what exactly do you disagree with?
disagree Tony M : Sorry, Alex, but Brie has the right answer, and your conf. level is perhaps rather high for an "I believe"
2 hrs
1. "Brie has the right ans": Sorry, Tony. You may be an expert in English but there doesn't seem to be such thing as "" in html. 2. I believe "I believe" is different from "I guess".
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