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waigl@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ve always been curious how people greeted each other before “hello”. Did we just say “good day” and variations thereof?

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  • Assman@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Most English speakers actually used “wazzup” like those Budweiser commercials

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  • scutiger@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Greetings, traveler.

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    • LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Well met!

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      • blackluster117@possumpat.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Have you ever heard of the high elves?

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    • niktemadur@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Greetings and salutations, pilgrim.

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  • PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Well, Howdy is a contraction of “How do you do?”, hence the somewhat rarer “Howdy do!”, and Goodbye is a contraction of “God Be With You!”

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    • LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I didn’t know that about ‘goodbye’! Words are fascinating, huh.

      I believe “hello” itself was more of an exclamation (like “hi”, in fact) and supposedly comes from the Dutch “hollo”. Some people in the UK still use it as such, in fact.

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      • root_beer@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Adios and adieu also both refer to god; I’m sure other Romance languages say goodbye similarly but I don’t know Italian or Romanian or whatever

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