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[-] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 37 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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.

[-] onion@feddit.de 8 points 5 months ago

French as well I think

[-] mister_monster@monero.town 1 points 5 months ago

Yeah there's a whole TV show about that from the 80s.

[-] deus@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

That makes sense cause in Brazil we say "alô" when answering the phone, a word that only seems to exist for this single purpose.

[-] Quereller@lemmy.one 3 points 5 months ago

In Thailand, they use the the German hallo (hello).

[-] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 months ago

In Finnish we also say "haloo"

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