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Old February 4, 2012, 12:02 AM
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Originally Posted by Zeeshan
I am grateful to/for my parents. But i am lajuk and it feels weird(and formal) to thank them... Mind you, thanks/appreciation/saying 'i love you' time to time to our loved ones is a bit out-of-place in our 'culture'............

p.s. I just came back from the store where an automatic "thank you, have a nice day" was done, but in our country, we don't have these small talks during transaction. AND people tell us, that Americans are jantrik or materialistic. WTF
And there's a perfect word for "thank you" in the vocabulary. Yet we refrain...
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