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Lwazi Nkosi :
so you mean to tell me we missed out on ahoy?
2024-07-31 17:31:14
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senator palcateen :
“yes etymologynerd” we say in unison
2024-07-31 17:34:35
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asher :
in mandarin they say “wei” for hello on the phone, you don’t really say it as a greeting in any other context
2024-07-31 17:31:39
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Stuf :
where do “hi” and “hey” come from?
2024-08-01 03:46:51
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Aaron :
In Japanese they say Moshi Moshi as a greeting over the phone translating to "I'm going to talk" repeated. I didn't know that about hello
2024-07-31 19:51:39
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Kaczmarczyk :
Czech people right now 💀
2024-07-31 17:34:48
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coquette vasily :
coming from a spanish speaking country, we greet each other with "hello" or "aló" over the phone, even if we will continue the call in our language. maybe this kind of explains that too
2024-07-31 18:27:57
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always warm :
montgomery burns saying “ahoy-hoy” when answering the phone that one episode of the simpsons
2024-07-31 17:36:09
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Arjun :
if signing off an email with "sincerely" comes from mimicking letters, does that make it a skeuomorphism
2024-07-31 17:35:03
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Anna Bett :
My Italian grandmother used to answer the phone with "Pronto" -- Literally "Ready"
2024-08-01 02:56:19
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alex_82819272 :
Are you sure that it stems from “to holler”? In German, you say “hallo” (pronounced like English hullo) and in French you say “allô” but neither language as a word similar to “to holler”.
2024-07-31 20:01:08
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Honored Brother Fellhammer :
Well I say ahoy when answering the phone, but that's only because my vocabulary is 50% nautical words. I don't know why.
2024-07-31 17:34:01
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e :
hullo is said in the Lord of the rings, which I thought was a purposeful anachronism but ig tolkien probably just said that because he was born in 1892
2024-08-01 11:05:43
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(𝕳)🜏Simos_161☢️ :
in Greece we say mostly "ναι" wich means yes and "λέγεται" wich means you shall speak. "λέγεται" its the formal way to answer the phone and mostly its "λέγεται παρακαλώ" wich means you shall speak plz
2024-07-31 23:29:50
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Ollieview :
my favourite related fact is that the "hello my baby" song was meant to kind of satirise this weird new greeting
2024-08-04 21:44:52
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user7510871507680 :
Letter/Email greetings are things we’d NEVER say aloud!
2024-07-31 17:49:07
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∿≀∨∥∶∟≺⊀⋁∦∣⊽ 👽🫸🤌🙏 :
It also explains why nobody says hello, “hey” isn’t a shortened version of hello it’s from other Germanic languages, hello also is related to Germanic hallo which Anglo-Saxon had hāl meaning health
2024-08-01 09:59:09
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Kensi :
So did saying “Hallo” in German come from the English “hello”?
2024-08-02 15:33:34
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farklegriffen :
How could you not mention the song that made fun of all the kids saying "hello"
2024-07-31 18:04:47
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Kevin Avalosd :
I've heard this also happened with the way people say "Bueno" in Mexico. Literally trying to test if the connection was 'good'
2024-07-31 21:43:31
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sotu (secrets of the universe) :
totally using ahoy now
2024-07-31 20:56:40
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Juan Diego Diaz :
in Spanish we don't say Hola, we say Alo
2024-07-31 21:24:48
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user174873374 :
hello my baby hello my darling hello my ragtime gal. the song also helped made it popular
2024-07-31 18:57:15
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Brown :
Bro never dissappoints
2024-08-01 17:47:56
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