"Well Met" - What! It's combat?

[tripleblessed]

I've had a week to think through this issue. Greeting new members with well met will be as easy as having long hair (kept in a ponytail as I have for 40 plus years) among a room full of "crew cuts". It is a quirk, not meant to offend others, but as natural as my ready and hardy laughter. I can only remain, sincerely, Bobby Ingram, and true to my myself.

I wish one could put ten "ayes". As a fellow Southerner who has all this life occasionally used used "well met"; and "mayhap" and "perchance" to boot, I say, keep on trucking. I've found long hair natural to me, though not always easy. Working side by side with corporate officers, law enforcement officers, doctors and lawyers, as well as stagehands, carpenters, truck drivers, and various bozos and ne'er-do-wells, I've often been asked about it, but you've summed it up well.

[Profane James]

@Tarheel @tripleblessed

Well said gentlemen...from yet another long haired Southerner.

[Jack Daw]

As tripleblessed implies, "well met" is just a usage that has become obsolete in the UK although, even in Shakespeare's day, it would not have been used with somebody one had not previously met. Its sense would have been "I'm glad I bumped into you because..." (Or the reverse - "Ill met by moonlight, Titania" from "Midsummer Night's Dream"!)
The "Fall" is another US usage strange to our ears but was normal in the UK 400 years ago. Likewise the very archaic (except in Scots) "gotten" and so on.
Alan

My wife and I were on our honeymoon cruise overseas when I was chided by an Ozzie in his dinner jacket at the dinner table for using "have gotten," instead of "have got". He told me it was improper English, but I advised him in my tuxedo that it was still acceptable in American English.

[James Hood]

From this POV, it's become somewhat of a rather a global culture-lite (curse blue jeans, tees, hoodies, trainers!), ever more so with omnipresent global travel, immigration, the internet, voluntary and for-career expatriates....

This forum is by its very reason for existing, attractive to and e-inhabited by eccentrics. Ergo, 'should be small surprise when we e-speak in "eccentric" manners or dye one's hair hunter's green to match a colour in our tartan.