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The words of propitious omens (well-wishing)
The words of propitious omens are the shorter forms of benedictions used for expressing the best regards and happiness in people’s daily routine works and practices. The words of propitious omens are regarded as respect for others and widely used for greeting purposes. The words of omens are predicting the good things that can be happened in the future, and this makes the omens similar to benedictions but its function and use is different. The words of omens do not have different parts, as shorter as possible, words or poems which does not have any melody. The words of omens associated with any actions are always said same and its meaning has a connection to that actions. For instance: if somebody is writing a script, the omen word is said as “May the brush would sharpest”, if somebody is churning the Airag, the omen is said as, “More butter comes to the Airag” and so on.
#oral expression
#benediction
#greeting
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Mongolia
