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• Assman@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

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

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• scutiger@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Greetings, traveler.

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  • LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Well met!

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    • blackluster117@possumpat.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Have you ever heard of the high elves?

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      • LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Are they the elves that say “hi”?

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  • niktemadur@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Greetings and salutations, pilgrim.

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• PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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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