r/lovethissmug • u/HaloExpert422 • 1d ago

😻 Meme Or Other Online Trope 😂 using a single nonpunctuated "what" as a reaction

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u/Honeybadger2198 1d ago

AFAIK bye is simply a shortened form of goodbye. I think the dude questioning the dictionary doesn't understand that. If you interpret bye as its own standalone word, then it's easy to think "good evening" might be related.

They're wrong, but I can see where the logic lies.

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u/BraxleyGubbins 1d ago

“Goodbye” is one word, and “good [any other word]” isn’t

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u/Away-Commercial-4380 1d ago edited 1d ago

This by itself is not a satisfactory explanation at all. There are plenty of words which are contractions of two other words that don't necessarily form contractions* with other words.

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u/BraxleyGubbins 1d ago

Which would mean that “goodbye” forms no connection to “good evening” or “good morning” in the sense that the user in the image assumed, yes. Unless I read your comment wrong, aren’t we agreeing with each other?

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u/Away-Commercial-4380 1d ago

I wrote connection instead of contraction my bad. But for example "instead" in one word and "in spite of" is 3, doesn't mean they're not connected

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u/Infinite-Gold4441 1d ago

instead is just shortened from "in it's stead"

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u/Away-Commercial-4380 1d ago

And my point is that there's no strong evidence, as per the original comment, that goodbye isn't shortened from "good bye"