Merry Christmas
Joyous Yule
Happy Hannukah
Happy Kwanza
Happy Ramadan
and for those who abstain from selecting a deity: have a nice day.
(even goldo)
Vrolijk kerstfeest en een gelukkig nieuwjaar!
Heh, more people who speak Dutch? Are you from the Netherlands? Belgium? The Antilles?
Vrolijk kerstfeest en een gelukkig nieuwjaar!
Heh, more people who speak Dutch? Are you from the Netherlands? Belgium? The Antilles?
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year?
I figured that out!
Considering the topic of this thread, I'm not surprised you did
True, but if you pay attention and actually try to sound out the words, it is very siminlar to Merry Christmas and happy new year.
But yeah, the holiday is a big clue!
It's funny to note though that I think kerstmis is really a loaner-word from English instead of Dutch, because "kerst" is not a dutch word, but a Dutch-i-fication of the English "christ", since our word for christ would be christus, so the word should be christus-mis.
Or something. It's funny to see how related the languages can be some times.
Glædelig jul everybody
i like that ae thing. it looks so cool!!
Heh, more people who speak Dutch? Are you from the Netherlands? Belgium? The Antilles?
I'm from Belgium. We briefly talked about fries some time ago. On that subject, I asked a woman from the Netherlands at the frieshop (which turns out to be the English word for frietkot) about it. She said that Dutch mayonaise is indeed much sweeter. Apparently, we do not call it mayonaise here in Belgium but frietsaus (friesauce). Better ask for that next time instead of mayonaise. :D Not served in every frieshop though.
The nieuwjaar/newyear part certainly is, and I think kerstmis sounds like it...
It's funny to note though that I think kerstmis is really a loaner-word from English instead of Dutch, because "kerst" is not a dutch word, but a Dutch-i-fication of the English "christ", since our word for christ would be christus, so the word should be christus-mis.
Or something. It's funny to see how related the languages can be some times.
The funniest thing is: here in Belgium we celebrate Sinterklaas (Saint Nicholas) on the sixth of december and Kerstmis with 'de Kerstman' (Christmas with Santa Clause) the 24th of december. It's actually the same thing twice but one was original and the other the foreign variation which we then copied again.
Even though both are old men with beards who bring gifts, Sinterklaas has completely different attributes and a different look than Santa. Just google Sinterklaas for some images.
The funniest thing is: here in Belgium we celebrate Sinterklaas (Saint Nicholas) on the sixth of december and Kerstmis with 'de Kerstman' (Christmas with Santa Clause) the 24th of december. It's actually the same thing twice but one was original and the other the foreign variation which we then copied again.
Even though both are old men with beards who bring gifts, Sinterklaas has completely different attributes and a different look than Santa. Just google Sinterklaas for some images.
The same here! Except calling the Eve giver "Mikołaj" is mostly a Warsaw thing; other parts of Poland have their own anthropomorfic personifications (most popular being Little Angel (Aniołek), Little Star (Gwiazdka) or Star-Man (Gwiazdor); the last one being the exact same word used for a male celebrity, making people outside of Greater Poland chuckle at this).
And there's also the Soviet leftover, Grandpa Frost.
EDIT: would forget: "Na szczęście, na zdrowie, na św. Szczepana!"
Very cool. Why is he wearing a miter? (That is the name for the hat, right?)
That is indeed the name for the hat. He was a religious figure, a bishop I think. As far as I know, Santa Claus was derived from him overseas, and then came back to us on Christmas, which before was only about the birth of Jesus.
The story about Saint Nicholas was that there was an innkeeper who killed a bunch of children (I don't remember why) and put them in barrels with salt. Saint Nicholas later stopped by and asked for a bit of meat. "No no, from the barrels in the back." (which the innkeeper had just before tried to hide) The innkeeper then got scared and confessed everything he had done. Saint Nicholas then opened the barrels and the children jumped out alive and well.
EDIT: The black guys that are always with Saint Nicholas are "zwarte pieten" (black Petes?) and they are his helpers, much like the elves are those of Santa. Most often they are played by white people painted black. They often like to give people kisses so they leave black stains on your cheeks.
The whole thing would probably be frowned upon in the US because of the slavery history.
The whole thing would probably be frowned upon in the US because of the slavery history.
It is frowned upon in Netherlands, but I think PC people finally gave up (not that I acually follow this).
I actually feel the whole "white guilt" thing to be racist.
Exactly.
It is a construct of the Left to sow discord and perpetuate "victims" politics.
It has been a while since you gratuisly and baselessly bashed the Left. Is everything alright?
Edit: And Fow News is left wing? Cause they are pretty good at presenting Christians as victims.
yes but not as far left as the liberal media.
Every media is a liberal media! And they are all against us!
Everything is aginst you.
Nature abhores a goldo
*shrug*