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ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Edison was quite successful, to the point where some languages other than English have a word that sounds like “hello” (for example, Russian “allo”) which is used only when answering the phone.

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onion@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
French as well I think

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- mister_monster@monero.town ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Yeah there’s a whole TV show about that from the 80s.
  
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deus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
That makes sense cause in Brazil we say “alô” when answering the phone, a word that only seems to exist for this single purpose.

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Quereller@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
In Thailand, they use the the German hallo (hello).

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hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
In Finnish we also say “haloo”

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