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[–] [email protected] 37 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

French as well I think

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

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

[–] deus 7 points 7 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

In Finnish we also say "haloo"