Nice that you visit me here, whenever it is - and wheresoever it is.

Well, in this electronic world of communications it's a bit this and that with terms of time and place. Sometimes you don't know what to write, or say (to phone answering machines for example). You have no idea about when and where your message will be read or listened to.

We can of course use time-neutral phrases like hello and bye and so on, but it may become a bit dull after some time. Sometimes you want to make a variation of the meaning. When talking to each other, even via phone, it's rather easy to hear underlying feelings - like sadness or irony. I have the feeling we ought to sort this out in the electronic communication, too.

Why not start with using these phrases:

• Hello, the common hello we use talking to friends we know rather well, a bit informal.

• Good morning a bit more formal but friendly.

• Good day even more formal but still friendly.

• Good Monday morning means that you have a rather sad message.

• Good Saturday morning when you have something nice to tell.

• All the best we use like hello, but in the opposite. In other words; at the end.

• Good evening like when you in a friendly way consider the dialogue is finished.

• Good night when you really mean that the dialogue is over.

Good evening.