namaste

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My conclusion: Group A wins over Group B. Q: A couple friends and I disagree about the use of the term "namaste" in yoga class.

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  • The next episode of Lost is called Namaste namaste is a greeting, from Sanskrit namas "bow, obeisance" plus te, a dative second person singular enclitic (cognate with thee).
  • Once enabled, just click the Indian languages icon and type words in the way they sound in English -- Gmail will automatically convert them to their Indian language equivalent.For example, if you have Hindi selected, "namaste" will transliterate to We currently support five Indian languages - Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam, and businesses and schools using Google Apps should see this in the coming weeks.
  • Then I waved the cash that Flood gave me and she went all spacey, overmeditated, " namaste" on me, like it's not about the money when it's really about the money. —  Christopher Moore - You Suck
  • Inside the OK! magazine, as Barbara strikes many poses as Indian dulhan (in one she's doing namaste) she also talks about her past and her relationship with ex boyfriend Sergio Mayer from whom she has a love child. —  ApunKaChoice.com
  • It's time to say namaste to the lovely and limber Montreal-based yoga mag Ascent, closing its practice with an om and
 

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