So true Victor. i was brought up to say and respond exactly in the manner you shared. Your point about addressing strangers is very significant. Aside that, I still automatically remember it each morning in my head. In many ways I feel that my being has turned this into a lived aesthetic as I walk the streets of NY acknowledging strangers/people. ++++++++++++++++++++++++ This may sound funny, but from time-to-time I speak in our Mai Bhas, Marathi, etc., even a few words of Japanese with her and although she responds very sparingly on occasion---its mostly one way. Of late it has been Urdu, which I am working hard at picking up in chunks, beyond basics---to help CC out since she needs to be able to converse in it at a reasonably level in it.
venantius > From: Victor Rangel-Ribeiro <vrangel...@yahoo.com > Subject: Re: [Goanet] Dev Borem Korum > > May I also point to two other expressions that we oldsters used to > routinely exchange, whether as adults or as children,?whenever we passed > another person in the street, even total strangers: > ???? Deo boro dis dium. > ???? Deo bori rat dium. > And the immediate answer naturally was, Tukai dium! > (del) > ???? Regards to all, > ???? Victor >