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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish7•edit-27 hours agoThis wasn’t just a quirk of Burns, but a joke about his age: Alexander Graham Bell initially suggested that the standard greeting when answering a telephone should be “ahoy”, but instead “hello” (suggested by Thomas Edison) was adopted.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•5 hours agoI still think we should switch over to Italian answering: “Pronto!” == ‘ready’
This wasn’t just a quirk of Burns, but a joke about his age:
Perhaps Thomas Edison’s greatest crime.
I still think we should switch over to Italian answering:
“Pronto!” == ‘ready’