- prompted me to update my avatar to represent my origins and, incidentally, bring it into line with the one I've been using on DWM for quite some time.Sam Vara wrote: ↑Fri Oct 30, 2020 12:01 pmIt's pretty complicated using a Hindu greeting! Are you of Indian descent?I'm very strongly in favour of keeping the language very simple because complicated language is so often used as a smokescreen or window-dressing. (So are liturgical languages like Latin in Christianity and Sanskrit/Pali in Buddhism, but that's another topic altogether.)
I remain, Sir, your obdt. servant,
Sam Vara.
No, I'm not Indian in any genetic sense, but Kim O'Hara, the young hero of Kipling's book, grew up as a street kid in Lahore - which was then in India, although it's now in Pakistan. He was totally comfortable in Punjabi and Urdu and picked up English later, so I guess I can say
in his name.
IRL I've known and used it in yoga and Buddhist circles in Australia for so long it has become completely natural. It turns out to be a great COVID-era salutation as well.
Kim