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You would hate "hiya", it is somehow short for "how are you" (another silly greeting we have).
However if you responded to "hiya" with "I'm good thanks" (the polite response to "how are you") people would think you are strange!
English is very weird!
Oh and when you hear our sayings they are even more strange (although that seems to be common across the world, Australians say "we aren't here to fuck spiders" which means let's not mess around / waste time! Or better yet the Swedes have "slide in on a shrimp sandwich" to mean someone who didn't have to work to get where they are!) Sadly I don't know any good German ones but I am sure you have some great ones too!
Anyway I digress, yes "hello there" is bloody weird when you think about it!
You would hate "hiya", it is somehow short for "how are you" (another silly greeting we have).
However if you responded to "hiya" with "I'm good thanks" (the polite response to "how are you") people would think you are strange!
English is very weird!
Oh and when you hear our sayings they are even more strange (although that seems to be common across the world, Australians say "we aren't here to fuck spiders" which means let's not mess around / waste time! Or better yet the Swedes have "slide in on a shrimp sandwich" to mean someone who didn't have to work to get where they are!) Sadly I don't know any good German ones but I am sure you have some great ones too!
Anyway I digress, yes "hello there" is bloody weird when you think about it!
The most hilarious one to a foreign speaker is "how do you do", to which the only right answer is "how do you do". It doesn't make any kind of sense.