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    7 months ago

    “halloo, what’s this?”

    “haaaallooooo” is used a lot by Germans as a slow exclamation to mean “hey idiot, what are you doing?”

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      7 months ago

      It’s used this way in American English sometimes, as in a teen issuing a counterpoint “HellOOOOoooo”