I answer with “Yes?”
It gets straight to the point
I always liked in Momento he picked up the phone and immediately asked, “Who is this?”
The dutch way
What if you end up in a verbal contract
Then say “yes?*”
*This is a question asking what you are calling for and does not create joinder.
Is this a sovcit thing?
Yup
Only if you speak it at a 45-degree angle in red. If you buy my audio book I’ll explain how to do this.
All rights reserved?
Imagine Edison trying to patent the “hello” greeting to get royalties every time someone answered the phone.
Then the incel fanbois defending Edison, insisting he invented the term 'hello".At this point I think there are more incel fanbois overhyping Tesla, still believing he really did have perpetual energy death rays invented by Ancient Egyptian aliens
Dude was brilliant, but he was also very, very crazy… and a name that comes up a lot when I’m on the “Spirit Science and Ancient Aliens are perfectly valid methods of self-education in comparison.” side of Youtube
Not that I’m defending Edison mind you, every cent he ever gained was earned by Tesla.
Edison deserves hate for more than that
Moshi Moshi
Japanese people answer their phone like that, everything is fine.
I answer my phone like that, I’m branded a weaboo for the rest of my life.
I like the explanation that devious spirits cannot say this phrase and that’s why it’s used. Apparently it’s also just a casual way of saying “I’m ready to talk” and was used by early telephone operators in Japan. It’s most likely people just ended up copying the phrase from operators and aren’t worried about being tricked by foxes.
I like the explanation that devious spirits cannot say this phrase and that’s why it’s used
Evil spirits can not say the same word twice in a row. Foxes can not say “moshi”. With “moshi moshi” you get a 2-for-1 special.
Mosh moof
Fuck, I can’t do it, they’re right!
Better luck next time, nine-tails.
LISTEN HERE YOU!! … IMMA FIND YOU, RIP OUT YOUR TONGUE AND USE IT TO PAINT MY BOAT!!!
… the Bartender Moe response
Lol yes! Came here to post that, and this link: https://screenrant.com/burns-simpsons-phone-joke-clever-history-reference-explained/
Nice website.
Ahoy, guys.
Be the change you want to see in this world, don’t let Thomas Edison continue to shit on everything from his grave.
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.
In Thailand, they use the the German hallo (hello).
That makes sense cause in Brazil we say “alô” when answering the phone, a word that only seems to exist for this single purpose.
French as well I think
Yeah there’s a whole TV show about that from the 80s.
In Finnish we also say “haloo”
Pronto
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Is it just to swedes “pronto” sounds like it would mean “hurry up”? Or is that everyone?
Vad har det med Sverige att göra? As a Spanish speaker, that’s just one its meanings in Spanish.
Oh, maybe thats where I’m getting it from then. I know other swedes who have reacted that way to hearing an italian answering the phone.
In Korean, answering call has a very specific phrase 여보세요. It means look here but the phrase is now only and solely used when answering call.
When in see a post like this, ibsee a new friend.
Fuck Edison you idea stealing cuck.
I heard he electrocuted an elephant.
Yeah because he wanted to make Teslas ac electricity look evil, but just made everyone there hate him.
Just as the ducks at the park are free, there is also no legal requirement to answer the phone in particular way. Hit folks with a, “Ahoyhoy”, “Howdy”, “Whats good brother?”, or for the more adventurous, “Ralphs Roadkill Cafe. You kill it, we grill it.”
“Dave’s pizza and abortion clinic, your loss is our sauce” is a particularly spicy one I’ve heard.
Jim’s abortion clinic … We deletus your fetus
Fetus Deletus was my favorite spell to cast at Hogwarts.
“You rape em, we scrape em”
(I do not condone this message)
“Duffy’s Morgue, you stab em we slab em.”
I usually hit my friends with the “sup fuckface”
I throw a fucko out there into the world every now on then
Snackbar Harry, Harry speaking
I usually get people with: “Anons Morgue: you kill ‘em, we chill ‘em.”
“You bag 'em, we tag 'em”
In my family it was variations of “Hello, Joe’s whatever. Insert rhyme here.”
One of my favorites was “Joe’s mortuary, you stab 'em we slab 'em.”
“Jimbo’s Fish Fry; you hook 'em we cook 'em!”
Was always my favorite. Probably because I would love to take a restaurant a bucket of fresh-caught bluegill and come back in a couple hours to dinner. Filleting all those little bastards is a pain…
My dad’s go to is “Joe’s Bar and Grill, this is Grill speaking”. Sometimes he’ll shake it up and answer as Bar instead
My go to is “Yellow”
Mine is somewhere between yellow and howdy. If you call a Texas Drunk you should be prepared for a “Yeowdy”.
Ahoy hoy
Excellent
Had to look it up, and the story is actually really interesting. Heres a great article from NPR
https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2011/02/17/133785829/a-shockingly-short-history-of-hello
my go-to when im forced to answer unknown callers is “who is this?”. then i disconnect if they dont answer my question
“Who dares to disturb my slumber?”
That’s kind of bizarre tbh but I guess you just never get contacted by folks who aren’t in your phone?
To me it sounds like OP’s opener is exactly for people who aren’t contacts saved in his phone. It sounds perfect to me
Am I the only person who occasionally gets a text or phone call from an unknown number that is actually valid? Like has your bank never called you? Or insurance? Or a friend of a friend?
I mean at that point if you’re going to be so hostile why are you even answering? Just let it go to voicemail
20 years ago, yes
These days, the only people who call me are creditors (who aren’t supposed to) and scammers
If you just add "hi’ to the beginning then it’s a perfect middle. “Hello, who is this?” Nothing is better than letting it go to voicemail, but sometimes you’re in a situation where you might be expecting a call from an unknown number
i dispense with pleasantries when my expectation is not neutral :-)
The only folk who have trouble identifying themselves when calling my private phone, are spammers.
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?
Most English speakers actually used “wazzup” like those Budweiser commercials
Greetings, traveler.
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