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Originally posted by paigowprincess
When Bilmore states he hears namaste twice a day to indicatehow ubiquitous the term is as a greeting, the implication is that more than one person uses it.
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As Bilmore pointed out, he knows two Minnesotan Hindus who say it.
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and given that the whole crux of the arguemnt is that americans saying the hinde word namaste is worse than americans saying the English word cheers, you might think he would have pointed out that a HINDU MINNESOTAN was syaing it rather than let the implication that many a white person in Minnesota was using it so it must be a commmon greeting.
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Actually, the implication that I got was that he knew some Hindu people who used the expression. Which turns out to be not only obvious, but also correct. Weird, that. The other implication that I got was that Bimore was not trying to make any statement about how frequently the word is used in Minnesota, or by whom it is used. Rather, he was pointing out to you that, based on his experience, the word meant something different than you knew it to be from floating through your endless sea of head-up-their ass poseurs.
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Clearly Petunia was the brains of your little operation there.
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Indeed. I miss her.
