How does Latin "hello" translate into English "hullo?"?

Question

On a Pompeii cave was found graffiti... one inscription said, "Hullo, we're wineskins!" Why "hullo" instead hello? This baffles me.

Answer 1

Salve!

Sorry if I'm totally misunderstanding your question, but I always thought latin was a phonetically dead language, in that we don't know any more how it was pronounced.

For the past millennia we've spoken it as it reads, in a manner that would probably be close to incomprehensible to it's historical speakers.



(If that's the case and I'm not misremembering all this) It means the translation is an example of the translator choosing phonetics to best convey the emotional context of the message. "Hullo!" is sometimes used (here at least) as a far more chummy and informal variant of hello.

Answer 2

How does Latin "hello" translate into English "hullo?"?



On a Pompeii cave was found graffiti... one inscription said, "Hullo, we're wineskins!" Why "hullo" instead hello? This baffles me.

Answer 3

I don't know but the ones that stand out to me are maybe {curse and lovable babie} coz they're both strong characters with big attitudes and {wolf and Dina} coz they're 2 of the genuinely nicest people I've met. EDIT: @Marwan: Sorry doll I got picked up by a tall Egyptian guy called 3ala2 I met at City Stars today. You know us Polish chicks, we go crazy for the tall ones. Don't be upset Marmorty, it was never meant to be between us, you were just too short :(

Answer 4

Very good question... It has to do with the fact that people in the south can't pronounce the vowel E.