1)What does the phrase “Jai guru de va om” mean?
2)Is Christy Turlington’s mom from El Salvador?
“Jai guru deva om” means what you want it to.
Why don’t you ask her?
Welcome to the Straight Dope!
As to your second question, Christy’s Turlington’s mother is from El Salvador. It’s mentioned in this Christy Turlington fact sheet from a “field guide” to supermodels.
Google is your friend.
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1)What does the phrase “Jai guru de va om” mean?
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http://www.users.qwest.net/~gcliving/atu/misc/translation.htm
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1)What does the phrase “Jai guru de va om” mean?
Yojimbo that’s just one possible translation. It is said to mean “I give thanks to my teacher” and so on. I think Montfort is pretty close in his answer.
Welcome to the SDMB, **DiGiTALBATH **. For future reference, you should know that when you have two unrelated General Questions, you are better off starting two threads. Usually you will get a better response and your thread titles will be less enigmatic. But since you already posted here, you should not repost these two questions.
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