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03-30-2010, 02:37 PM
|  | Basement Clef | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Below Ground, Detroit area | | | Bye, Goodbye Rant
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I talk with office & corporate types on the phone daily. Men, women, no Geckos.
Anyhow, when closing out many of these conversations, more so lately. I have been getting an onslaught of the; "M...Bye" closings rather than a simple; "Thank you...(fill in blank) goodbye".
What purpose does the pre-fixed Mmm's serve other than to take up space where no extra words are needed or are necessary? Bye means 'Bye' doesn't it?
Is "Goodbye", or "Bye" now too harsh to be used by itself when closing telephone conversations?
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03-30-2010, 02:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Central Ohio! | | | IMHO, M...Bye sounds rather dismissive & disrespect... its akin to Buh Bye.... |
03-30-2010, 02:54 PM
|  | I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize! | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Ottawa, Canada | | | I think it is a problem with the word bye itself. People are about to say bye, and then they think.... mmmmm. bye has two vowels.... does't that mean two syllables? And it throws them off. |
03-30-2010, 02:58 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: New-brunswick | | | It's all about the voice tone imo. |
03-30-2010, 03:01 PM
| | | | Common etiquette is pretty much a thing of the past. An awful lot of people just don't know how to do simple things, like hold open a door for someone or say please and thank you.
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03-30-2010, 03:06 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Lakeland, FL | | All I know is men that say bye bye at the end of a phone call deserve to have their man card yanked. I mean.........it sounds like a 5th grade girl signing off  |
03-30-2010, 03:06 PM
|  | The Lowdown Diggler | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Huntington Beach, CA | | Personally, I'm offended by this thread. I do not appreciate the implication that I am bisexual. I bid you good day, sir.   |
03-30-2010, 03:06 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: West Covina (LA), SoCal | | | Its a shorten form of 'M'kay Bye' Okay Bye. Bye.
<no problem with the implication
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03-30-2010, 03:08 PM
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03-30-2010, 03:12 PM
|  | That's the way uh huh uh huh I like it.. | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Robbinsville, NJ | | | the "mm" is simply an abbreviation for "yes, thank you so much, it was great talking to you, say hello to the wife and kids if applicable and I feel further enriched today by this fine conversation that we've had, fare thee well and goodbye"
It's just easier to say "mm.." It's kind of like what BBQ is to barbecue only better.
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03-30-2010, 03:13 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Fort Collins, Colorado | | | Perhaps all the people you're talking with have been outsourced and are in Mumbai?
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03-30-2010, 03:15 PM
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03-30-2010, 03:17 PM
| | That's the way uh huh uh huh I like it.. | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Robbinsville, NJ | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Gard ...well, at least you're not talkin' to potholes... | what the heck kind of accent is that?? It sounds 1/3 Southern drawl, 1/3 British English and 1/3 valley girl??
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03-30-2010, 03:23 PM
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03-30-2010, 03:26 PM
| | | Good day Sir..... I SAID, GOOD DAY. 
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03-30-2010, 03:36 PM
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03-30-2010, 03:44 PM
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Originally Posted by FL Knifemaker All I know is men that say bye bye at the end of a phone call deserve to have their man card yanked. I mean.........it sounds like a 5th grade girl signing off | Here, "bai bai" is the accepted way to end a phone call. Not feminine at all. I'm so screwed when I get back to the states....
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03-30-2010, 03:57 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: West Midlands, U.K. | | | let's get old school and start using ahoy-hoy,
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03-30-2010, 04:03 PM
|  | Johnny and Joe | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Chicago | | | I've never heard this in a professional situation and would be pretty surprised if I did. Pretty much the only time I've heard it is from someone younger and female.
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