Agreed it's polite and lets the other person know we are here and the conversation can begin,and goodbye is just a polite way of saying conversation is over and you can hang up. :)
what can be said apart from hello
I answer it 'good bye'--makes things much more interesting;-)
I believe it is to notify the other person that you have picked up the phone, to let them know you are there and ready to start your conversation. and the goodbye is saying that you are finished with your conversation
coz den the person knows their sum1 on the other side and is actually listenign DAH!!!!
Good maners.
because it's polite?
i once answered with "what!!?" (i was having a bad day) and it was a woman calling about a job interview.. needless to say i didnt get the job. hence why i always answer politely these days
when your phone is ringing and you pick it up you will say hello as its a way of greeting whoever is on the other end. its polite aswell.
To be polite
I say hello because it's polite and curtious. It's also the obvious thing you say to anyone you meet or greet.
BECAUSE those words are appropriate to use while on phone.
We say hello, it's like saying 'yes, who is it'.
We can't say 'what'? that wouldn't be polite or we can't say 'candy' etc. cuz that would just make no sense at all.
We say goodbye/bye bye/bye/see ya/cheerio/see ya later etc. cuz the other person on the phone will know when the call is going to end.
You can't just hang up that would be weird and rude plus what if the person wanted to say something but you just hung up?
LOL so we say bye to end the call.
it's a polite way to say
yes i'm here
and now the call ends.
otherwise, will the other person know when the call starts or ends. next time try picking up the phone and say nothing. and when your done say nothing. or yell out random words when you pick up the phone. :)
if you want to know the history of hello go to the link below
Its a key word to let the other person the the end you have to go.
The use of Hello for answering the telephone is credited to Thomas Edison. Bell first used the words used by the navy, "Ahoy-hoy", In 1889 the telephone operators were known as "Hello-girls". This is only the use of the word for the telephone. The word "hello" has been used in print as early as the 1860's which predates the telephone. It may derive from an earlier form Hullo used in print as early as 1838 by Charles Dickens, and in common usage in most English speaking countries.
to alert the person you answered and to b nice
It's manners.. the same as saying please and thanks.
The word hello was invented specifically to use on the telephone, it was between that and "Ahoy" and hello won.
I dunno.
God or whoever you believe in must have thought certain words are said at certain times.
Like whys...well..em...anything called whatever it's called??
LOL!! I have no idea!!
XXX, Peace out, Rolo.
Philip H just hangs up on me....
Because it's polite.
It's all to do with Thomas Edison; the first written use of the word "hello" was in a letter of his in 1887, in which he suggested that it should be used to answer the telephone as the word could be heard distinctly twenty feet away. He discovered this whilst testing Bell's prototype telephone, and used to shout it into the receivers at the Menlo Park Labs whilst trying to improve Bell's design. Bell himself preferred to say "Ahoy,hoy".
Edison's habit eventually spread to the rest of the research staff and then to telephone exchanges, where before the operators would normally say "Operator-are you ready to talk, caller?" or a variation thereof.
it is a means of introduction to an open line of communication. You could replace it with any other word such as 'yes?' or 'what?', seeming as in the context of most phone calls without caller ID, the purpose of the hello is more phrased as a question than a response. With cellphones that shows who is calling it would be like any other conversation where you know who you are talking to, in which case you might then ask, why do we say hello when we meet after a long period of absense from one anothers immediate proximity. The answer is simply that it is the socially acceptable means of greeting other people, and if you don't know why people greet, then I wouldn't be surprised if in fact you just flew in from Mars or Venus...
To greet someone who has just rang us and to then end a call..duh..lol
It has been suggested that "hello" is a corruption of a word used by the hunting (with hounds) fraternity, but I'm sorry I can't remember what it was.
Goodbye is supposed to be a mutation of "God be with you."
thats a good question i guess to be piolt as its like asking why do we say hi when we see someone n bye when we leave them
It's just etiquette. If I call someone and they answer the phone, "yeah?" I think it's rude.
politeness.
if we didnt it would be confusing
if u rang someone and they didnt say anything u would think they werent there
and u say goodbye to let the person no ur going
What? Hallo? Ive never heard that before...lol
I always answer the phone with 'BYE'
I haven't got it here, but Bill Bryson talks in one of his books about the confusion when phones were first invented... Some people thought you should answer with your full address, some people thought you should just say "Yes?"
"Hello" won out, as it was the best all-round conversation starter.
Heh - when I was a kid, my folks taught me to always answer with our phone number. These days, I just say "yee-ello?"
Probably because it sounds better than "YAH?"...although I have had fun with answering "is Ann there?" when my friends call me. They don't expect anything out of the ordinary like that!
politeness
lol...what else would you say...pick up the phone & say nothing? ...funny! oh & goodbye to end the conversation so that the other person knows...& not just putting the phone down!