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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ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks 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.
deus@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Quereller@lemmy.one 5 weeks ago
In Thailand, they use the the German hallo (hello).
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
In Finnish we also say “haloo”
onion@feddit.de 5 weeks ago
French as well I think
mister_monster@monero.town 5 weeks ago
Yeah there’s a whole TV show about that from the 80s.