Cell Phone Etiquette

There must be some purpose to your post Ashraf, but it is beyond me.

Please explain it to a mere mortal.

I do not want to diverge the attention of other people to "painful root" but

it is rather better to apply a word which should be more meaningful .

Ashraf

This is the etymology of Hello. What is the proposed etymology of Cello (or should it be Chullo)? Still do not understand the purpose.

hello 1883, alt. of hallo (1840), itself an alt. of holla, hollo, a shout to attract attention, first recorded 1588. Perhaps from holla! "stop, cease." Popularity as a greeting coincides with use of the telephone, where it won out over Alexander Graham Bell's suggestion, ahoy. Central telephone exchange operators were known as hello-girls (1889). "Hello, formerly an Americanism, is now nearly as common as hullo in Britain (Say who you are; do not just say 'hello' is the warning given in our telephone directories) and the Englishman cannot be expected to give up the right to say hello if he likes it better than his native hullo. [H.W. Fowler, "A Dictionary of Modern English Usage," 1926]

You might as well replace it with ELLO because it is what it sound like in any case.

Over here a lot are greeting with YEBO.

So if I follow your logic, a "hello" spoken to another at a

• jail would be reciprocated with a "jello"
• morgue would be reciprocated with a "mello"...
• sailyard would be reciprocated with a "sello"

Also, a "hello"

• written on paper should now be renamed "pello"
• transmitted by an email should be "eello"
• spoken over a radio should now be "rello"
  

I think it is not the medium/location of transmision that dictates a word's useage, it is the intent that determines a specific use of a word, with regards to the universal greeting, "hello".

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Your comment doesn't make any real sense when you apply it to the real world. There is no reason to use a different greeting when using a cellphone compared with a standard phone, in fact it makes more sense to speak in cellphone txt etiquette (which is what a lot of guests do here).

What about a web phone or posting on the internet? Should we use the very first standard greeting transmitted on the internet "HEL"?

Sorry, I don't see the point at all. What's you question really about?

I know the meaning of hello is not as it appears .We have no record how the spelling

of anceint greeting was changed to hello .

In scientific nomenclature whenever a new term name is required by combining two

different words then "o" is usually used .It means "of" .For example when "angina" and

"graphy" are combined then "o" is required that is "angiography" .It means graphy of

heart pain .So if "o" is combined with "hell" then what does it mean ?

Ashraf

Well you could do a thesis on the history of human greetings, other than that I don't really see the point. Why change now to something that doesn't make sense compared to the rest of the current English language (and derivative languages)?

Do you have another question perhaps we could answer on this engineering forum?

"How are you?" has now been replaced with "where are you?", which is not so polite.

This is really a waste of time. What difference does it make. Can't you find something important to fritter away your,and our time.

One of Bells competitors(or assistants, I can't remember) wanted the greeting to be "Ahoy". Now, your job is to find out if the previous statement is true. Go do some research. _{Get a life!}