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[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 40 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Greetings, traveler.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Well met!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Have you ever heard of the high elves?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Are they the elves that say "hi"?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Greetings and salutations, pilgrim.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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!"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 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