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[-] waigl@lemmy.world 33 points 6 months ago

Funny thing: "Hello" was actually not a common greeting until that point.

[-] LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 6 months ago

I've always been curious how people greeted each other before "hello". Did we just say "good day" and variations thereof?

[-] Assman@sh.itjust.works 40 points 6 months ago

Most English speakers actually used "wazzup" like those Budweiser commercials

[-] scutiger@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago
[-] LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 6 months ago
[-] blackluster117@possumpat.io 4 points 6 months ago

Have you ever heard of the high elves?

[-] LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 6 months ago

Are they the elves that say "hi"?

[-] blackbrook@mander.xyz 0 points 5 months ago

No, they are the elves that smoked all of your weed.

[-] niktemadur@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Greetings and salutations, pilgrim.

[-] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months 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 2 points 6 months 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 3 points 6 months 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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