Comment by nephihaha
13 hours ago
It feels as if "hello" is fading out again. It was never completely universal. Where I grew up, people still say "aye aye" (not on a ship btw), along with the usual "good whatever".
I did once read a Christian complaining about it because it had the word "Hell" in it. A minority opinion of course.
On the nautical theme, Czechs say "Ahoj" (pronounced "ahoy"). Especially charming because Czechia is landlocked. I have no idea how this came about.
I'm still shocked at Malá mořská víla too.
If you remove diacritics its completely valid BCS and same meaning.
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I've only used it while working customer-facing jobs. Outside that, it's 'ey, yo, whatupdoe, wuzzappenin, but usually just the good old nod.
I use ‘alright?’ far more than ‘hello’
Exactly, there's another one. Another common one along with G'day, wassup, how ye doin?, hiya, wotcher, and all kinds of other things?
Scotland?
Yes. Aye aye, fit like, chiel?
Nae bad, nae bad min!
So, not just Scotland but North East Scotland? (I'm in the shire myself, previously Aberdeen)
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