It's complicated
On our way to work today, when we'd stopped by for our brekky, the guy at the deli asked what language we were speaking in. We told him it was Nepalese, and like I expected, he asked us how we said, "Hello" in our language. You see, we don't really have a "hello" in our language now, do we? You'd say it was Namaste. But it's way too formal. Something you'd use only to your elders or something you say out of respect to someone like a teacher or a boss. You don't go 'Namaste' to your friends. We told him it was 'Namaste' anyways. Then he asked, what was "Thank you". Hey, that was easy. "Dhanyabaad". When he couldn't wrap his tongue around the word, I asked to write it down for him. I wrote the नमस्ते and धन्यवाद . He told us there was this Nepali girl he liked and he wanted to impress her. He asked how we said, "You have beautiful eyes" in Nepalese. My friend and I looked at each other li