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waigl@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Funny thing: “Hello” was actually not a common greeting until that point.
Comment on Edison
waigl@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Funny thing: “Hello” was actually not a common greeting until that point.
LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
I’ve always been curious how people greeted each other before “hello”. Did we just say “good day” and variations thereof?
Assman@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Most English speakers actually used “wazzup” like those Budweiser commercials
scutiger@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Greetings, traveler.
LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Well met!
blackluster117@possumpat.io 1 year ago
Have you ever heard of the high elves?
niktemadur@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Greetings and salutations, pilgrim.
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 1 year 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!”
LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year 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.
root_beer@midwest.social 1 year 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