/lit/ - Literature

I hate how every latin conversation on the internet starts with the same fucking line
>"Saaaalve!"
It's as if everyone started an english conversation with
>"Greetings!"
and never used
>"How is it going?"
>"Hey!"
>"What's up?"
>"Hello there"
What are some authentic alternative latin greetings other than salve?

>get into latin thinking it's super unknown dead language
>wow I'll be super cool, I'll know this language that nobody knows and everyone will think I'm a genius
>cut ahead a few months
>have literally found like 5 people in my town who all speak latin
>they all learned it in school
>they've all read the classics
>one lady even speaks greek too
>it's not special at all, it turns out I'm the retard who couldn't speak latin

It's not fair bros