As the colloquial version of Goodbye is 'bye bye', shouldn't Hello also be 'hi hi'?

If your using that theory then it should be lo lo shouldn't it?

I just looked in my Oxford dictionary and the word 'Goodbye' is the English way of the spelling. The American spelling is 'Goodby' and it actualy means "God be with you" and you only say goodbye once to someone in departure and so the brief way of saying is "Bye". Hello...Hallo...Hullo is a word of greeting and the brief was of saying is 'Lo'. If you're in the Western states of the US you would say 'Howdy' which really means "How do you do".

Good but crazy question. Hello can come at you as "Hey hey" (the Fonz as I recollect...), and I tend to say "byee". Somehow "bye bye" seems to sound to me like it's coming out of the mouths of babes (little peoples I mean...). Most folk I hang around with would say "catcha" being short for "catch up with you later" I guess. So ciao baby and keep them coming...

for some reason people seem to spend more time leave taking than saying hello...you usually just say hello and that's it...while when you say goodbye it's hard to just say it and leave...maybe that's why?

What do you think Hye! is ! It is certainly what you are asking, for HELLO.

Only if it is permitted to answer silly questions with "Fie, fie!"

a driveway should be a parkway. kind of like that?

Or hiya or hey hey hey...or wassup...