Now, this is just a tiny post really.
I’m not sure if it’s a Bangalorian thing, or a general India wide thing, but in several conversations recently I’ve noticed people saying ‘I wanted to wish you’ or when a friend spoke about somewhere that was super unfriendly, she said ‘they wouldn’t even wish me.’
It’s rather lovely – the point being that it’s a contraction of ‘wish you good morning’ or Merry Christmas or whatever good cheer you might wish to bestow on someone. Or even just a simple contraction of ‘greet you’.
I find it delightful somehow – to have someone want to ‘wish me’. To my ear it sounds more from the heart than ‘I wanted to wish you good morning’. Or even just the plain ‘good morning’.
‘Wish you’, sounds much more from the heartfelt somehow.
Much as I find India generally – all from the heart – and all very lovely – as I have mentioned many times…
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you’re really right. it’s kind’a delightful when someone wishes us. That’s where we can see their sincerity as a person. 🙂
Which makes it even meaner they wouldn’t even say it…
It does have an adorable and endearing ring to it. When I read the “they wouldn’t even wish me” one, I had in mind a kid who was so upset he was not given what he expecting or hoping to get.
Quick trivia: Out here in our local, two people who know each other can just raise their eyebrows while looking at each other and already be understood to have told one another “Hi, I see you. I hope you’re doing fine. Can’t talk right now, though. Have a nice day!” — all in that one swift motion. ^^,