What’s wrong with “ciao?” Doesn’t that mean something like, “Bye,” or “See ya,” in Italian?
1)”And what you said about uvdah dchol, can you explain to me what makes it uvdah dchol? I mean, if lifting weights is indeed mutar on shabbos, then why is it any more uvdah dchol than uvdah dshabbos? “
2)”Anyway, even though i strongly suspect that it is mutar meikar didinah, I may still refrain from doing it for the simple reason that it doesn’t feel ‘shabbosdik’.”
Uvda d’chol is a halachic way of saying “not Shabbosdik.”