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From: "McMahon,Brian D" <MCMAHON%GRIN1.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu>
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Subject: Re: Answer Phrase
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Danial Hamilton <motcid!hamilton@uunet.uu.net> writes:

>contact!ndallen@uunet.uu.net (Nigel Allen) writes:

>>I think Alexander Graham Bell once proposed "hoy-hoy" as the
>>appropriate way to answer the phone.

>I believe the Japanese have a greeting that is reserved for use on the
>telephone.  Something like "moshi moshi".

In Germany, there is a special formula for terminating a phone
conversation.  The usual "auf Wiedersehen" (meaning approximately,
"until we see each other again") makes no sense over the phone, and
German is a very precise language, so the correct way to say good-bye
becomes "auf Wiederh<o">ren," or "until we HEAR each other again."


Brian McMahon  <MCMAHON@GRIN1.BITNET>
Grinnell College Computer Services   
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