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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish33•1 year agoFunny thing: “Hello” was actually not a common greeting until that point.
minus-squareElectricMachmanlinkfedilinkEnglish17•1 year agoI’ve always been curious how people greeted each other before “hello”. Did we just say “good day” and variations thereof?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoNo, they are the elves that smoked all of your weed.
minus-squareÐ Greıt Þu̇mpkinlinkfedilinkEnglish3•1 year agoWell, 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!”
minus-squareElectricMachmanlinkfedilinkEnglish2•1 year agoI 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.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•1 year agoAdios 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
minus-squareThe AssmanlinkfedilinkEnglish39•1 year agoMost English speakers actually used “wazzup” like those Budweiser commercials
Funny thing: “Hello” was actually not a common greeting until that point.
I’ve always been curious how people greeted each other before “hello”. Did we just say “good day” and variations thereof?
Greetings, traveler.
Greetings and salutations, pilgrim.
Well met!
Have you ever heard of the high elves?
Are they the elves that say “hi”?
No, they are the elves that smoked all of your weed.
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!”
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.
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
Most English speakers actually used “wazzup” like those Budweiser commercials