Gravatar greets in Hebrew. What hell is this?

  • ludusnaturae · Member ·

    I have open my Gravatar account, then I saw this salutation:
    “Shalom, K. Gregorovius.”
    Until I know “Shalom” is a salutation in Hebrew. If all the text in Gravatar.com is in English, what hell is this Hebrew word doing there?
    And what is worse is that Hebrew language has highly relation with Jewish religion, then it’s absolutely inappropriate to put such a religious word in an international service as Gravatar.com is.
    Try to put the Spanish Catholic salutation “Ave María purísima” (you must respond “Sin pecado concebida”). What will people feel with something like that? Sure, that Gravatar is conspired with Vatican (best in Italian or Latin, of course).

    Please, remove such an insult for anybody no Jewish religion believer.

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  • panaghiotisadam · Member ·

    It’s just a silly gimmick: each time you enter, you get a random greeting – Shalom, Namaste, Kia Ora, Aloha, Hi, Hola, Salve…

  • ludusnaturae · Member ·

    Bad luck in random, I don’t usually enter into in Gravatar.
    If I find “Salve” it also took me a scare.


    Salve, Regina, Mater misericordiae,
    vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra, salve.
    ad te clamamus
    exsules filii Evae,
    ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
    in hac lacrimarum valle.

    Eia, ergo, advocata nostra, illos tuos
    misericordes oculos ad nos converte;
    et Jesum, benedictum fructum ventris tui,
    nobis post hoc exsilium ostende.
    O clemens, O pia, O dulcis Virgo Maria.

    … Per eundem Christum Dominum nostrum. Amen.

    (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salve_Regina)

    Welcome all languages and any culture of the world.
    And a special greetings to Jewish believers and Hebrew speakers.

    Thanks for your response, Panos.

  • timethief · Member ·

    Thanks ludusnaturae – bookmarked! :)

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