@[email protected]M to Science [email protected]English • 1 month agoEdisonmander.xyzimagemessage-square111fedilinkarrow-up1826arrow-down120
arrow-up1806arrow-down1imageEdisonmander.xyz@[email protected]M to Science [email protected]English • 1 month agomessage-square111fedilink
minus-square@ArbitraryValuelinkEnglish37•edit-21 month agoEdison was apparently quite successful, to the point where some languages other than English have a word that sounds like “hello” (for example, Russian “allo”) which is used only when answering the phone.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•1 month agoYeah there’s a whole TV show about that from the 80s.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish7•1 month agoThat makes sense cause in Brazil we say “alô” when answering the phone, a word that only seems to exist for this single purpose.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•1 month agoIn Thailand, they use the the German hallo (hello).
Edison was apparently quite successful, to the point where some languages other than English have a word that sounds like “hello” (for example, Russian “allo”) which is used only when answering the phone.
French as well I think
Yeah there’s a whole TV show about that from the 80s.
That makes sense cause in Brazil we say “alô” when answering the phone, a word that only seems to exist for this single purpose.
In Thailand, they use the the German hallo (hello).
In Finnish we also say “haloo”