goodbye

Goodbye is a term derived from the expression "bye". The concept is used as greetings, When a person says goodbye of other. For example: "Bye, mom, I'll be back for dinner.", "Are you leaving, Carlos? Goodbye! Good luck", "Give me a second that I forgot to say goodbye to Marta".

As a greeting, goodbye is part of a communication act. If a subject tells you "goodbye" to another, you are ending a meeting or a talk. The expression can be used when the communication it develops face or face, or if the people in question maintain contact through some technological means (telephone, computer or computer, etc.).

Suppose a young man is having dinner with friends. After a while after dinner, the boy stands up and says: "Well, bye: I'm leaving because tomorrow I have to wake up early". How can you tell, "goodbye" It works as a greeting and as a kind of announcement that the individual makes to warn that he is leaving the meeting.

Greetings are presented in a wide variety of terms and expressions, and serve both to start a communication and to end it; There are even those that use two people when meeting on the street simply to show each other that they have noticed the other's presence. Already within the limits of the same country it is possible to notice many ways of saying hello and goodbye, and this is triggered even more when observing the regionalisms of all Spanish-speaking countries.

As with other words and expressions, it is not easy to define the use from goodbye, or to specify the parts of the world in which it appears more frequently: for example, we could say that in Argentina it is said "bye" and that in Spain, "goodbye", but this could not be further from the truth, as far as because in both countries there are many other ways to say goodbye.

The same happens when we try to define the degree of formality of the term: to affirm that goodbye It is only used in formal situations, it is not correct, since in some parts of the world it appears in the daily lives of people from all walks of life. This does not mean that there are no less expressions serious to use as a farewell, how to be bye, See ya or even well (used, for example, on the island of Gran Canaria). In the written language, on the other hand, it is also possible to resort to a greeting, regards or A hug, among many other ways.

Goodbye can also be used to mention that a certain hurt it is inevitable or what something is over: "If the boss finds out that we broke the machine, goodbye: he leaves us all on the street", "Pray that your father does not find out what you have done, but ... goodbye to your monthly payment", "Goodbye to the World Cup dream: the selected team lost 5 to 0 and had no chances of qualifying for the next World Cup".

It is important to note that the use of this term in a situation worrying, in which the issuer anticipates a series of problems, may also have a certain comic or bittersweet nuance, in an attempt to soften the gravity of the events that are approaching. This does not mean that it also appears in contexts of true tension, in which there is no room for humor.

The dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) also mentions that goodbye can be used as interjection to state a disappointment, disappointment, or surprise. While the first two cases can be seen in the previous examples, let's look at a sentence in which goodbye denote surprise: "Goodbye, what an evening awaits us today!".