Greetings, traveler.
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LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 4 weeks agoI’ve always been curious how people greeted each other before “hello”. Did we just say “good day” and variations thereof?
scutiger@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 4 weeks ago
Well met!
blackluster117@possumpat.io 4 weeks ago
Have you ever heard of the high elves?
LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 4 weeks ago
Are they the elves that say “hi”?
niktemadur@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Greetings and salutations, pilgrim.
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!”
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.
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
Assman@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Most English speakers actually used “wazzup” like those Budweiser commercials