In honor of the new year, I’ve decided that the world ‘hello’ is getting overly-used and we need a new way to greet people. And it doesn’t even mean much, look it up sometimes. And it sounds even worse if you pose it as a question (hello?) like you’re not sure if you’re talking to someone or not. Which in some cases you might not be, but still. When someone walks up to you you don’t say “hello?” you say “hello.” So why is it different on the phone, obviously someone is calling you. only losers hang up.
Anyway that’s beside the point.
So here are a list of words you can use besides “hello”
1. Greetings. (this sounds so cool it should be illegal *swoon*. It makes you sound like the Counte of Monte Cristo and you sound self confident. Just imagine saying it on the phone- Greetings.)
2. Yo. (This may be used often in instant messaging and other online communication but you rarely hear anyone use it on the phone.)
3. Like, Hello? (Hah hah I heard Shaggy say this on a Scoobie Doo movie I watched when I was ten or something and my sister and I thought that was the funniest thing ever. Yeah! Go hippies!)
4. Aqua! (Mongolian. Sounds exotic.)
5. Yar! (Waramunga- don’t ask me what country that comes from- but I like it, it makes you feel like a pirate.)
6. Hullo. (sounds like ‘hello’ but if you wish to communicate that you are very bored and uninterested and depressed, ‘hullo’ works way better. Plus people might think you’re British which is cool too.)
7. Howdy. (yes it makes you sound like a cowboy, but it works as well as anything)
8. Do I know you?
9. No Speaka de Anglish (if you’re German, this is for you)
10. Speak. (Makes you sound very macho and sometimes people want to slap you because you’re a poser when you say it, and it’s also quite moronic, but go for it.)
11. Moshi Moshi! (I think it’s Japanese.)
12. Yello. (makes you sound good-humored, and it opens up a door to tell that joke.)
13. Wotcha.
14. And of course the classic Aloha! and when you say goodbye, Aloha!
15. Pronto! (Italians are lucky)(phone usage only)
16. Who’s this suspicious charcter? (if you want to sound like a detective, this is for you.)
17. Word. (boring and unemotional)
18. Jambo!
Yeah there are probably more I could put but I have to go now.
Greet 2007 in a much cooler way than saying ‘hello’.
