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Happy Holidays to you all! Get bent, FOX news. Let everyone celebrate the season. Now, I am off to prepare for Festivus at my house.

  • Wolf Link 🐺@lemmy.worldEnglish
    41·
    1 year ago

    “Goodbye” exists because of 15th century chatspeak. It’s a highly abbreviated version of “God be with ye”

    • sab@kbin.social
      91·
      1 year ago

      Oh wow!

      I always assumed it was connected to the word “by” as used in “by and by”, so that it would basically mean “have a good afterwards”.

      Cool stuff. Bob Dylan makes more sense to me now:

      And goodbye is too good a word babe
      So I’ll just say fare thee well

      • prole@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I ain’t sayin you did me unkind,

        You could’ve done better, but I don’t mind.

        You just kinda wasted my precious time

        But don’t think twice, it’s alright.