Some "goodbye" word

Mr. Alex · 10-02-2010, 03:12 AM

What is the word in the end of the http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--YqTQzqVZs ? I don't know how to spell it. Like too-dles...

gnashley · 10-02-2010, 05:20 AM

I don't know what the 'real' spelling is and I didn't watch the clip, but there is a colloquial word: toodle-uuu for goodbye -very British I think...

catkin · 10-02-2010, 06:23 AM

Probably toodle-oo which I don't recall ever hearing but the alternative toodle-pip was familiar in my childhood in the 50s and 60s, mostly used by older people. Definitely a quaint blast from the past unless it is enjoying a revival as words sometimes do.

jaydot · 10-02-2010, 06:59 AM

toodle-oo, toodle-pip, tata, cheerio. i find them such friendly ways to say goodbye that i still use them.

jens · 10-03-2010, 07:48 AM

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Originally Posted by jaydot

toodle-oo, toodle-pip, tata, cheerio. i find them such friendly ways to say goodbye that i still use them.

It's used in Belgium as well (the dutch part).
In our language it's not meant to be friendly at all (it's the same as "f*ck off, get lost, please go away and die, ...).

Hint: don't use it in belgium

catkin · 10-03-2010, 12:34 PM

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Originally Posted by jens

It's used in Belgium as well (the dutch part).
In our language it's not meant to be friendly at all (it's the same as "f*ck off, get lost, please go away and die, ...).

Hint: don't use it in belgium

Good to know, like not asking for a rubber in an office supplies shop in USA and not refusing more food at dinner in France by saying "Je suis plein".

jaydot · 10-04-2010, 01:34 PM

in this lecture:

http://animusliber-dl.blogspot.com/

which is well worth watching for its entertainment value, professor hofstadter talks about his time in italy and how he learned not to say 'ciao' to everyone in his organisation.

social milieu can also determine what is acceptable. what is ok among friends may not be ok to the boss, for example.