Merry Christmas to all...
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Merry Christmas.
For me, an old fashioned Santa would be one called Father Christmas. We never called him Santa when I was a child.
For me, an old fashioned Santa would be one called Father Christmas. We never called him Santa when I was a child.
The guy's got a lot of names in many languages.
I'm French Canadian and in French his name is Pere Noel which translates exactly to Father Christmas.
Historically (well, back to the late 18th to early 19th century America) the name went from St. Nicholas to SanteClaus to Santa Claus. Santa is basically a reboot of St. Nicholas minus the ecclesiastical trappings. But the more historical St. Nicholas (with the ecclesiastical trappings) or Sinterklass does continue in the Netherlands I believe.
Joyeux Noel!
Merry Christmas, Warped9! Have a wonderful holiday.
Here in Southeastern Ontario it looks very Christmasy. We will most certainly have a very white Christmas, the kind you see on greeting cards. Mind you it's gotten a little messy with some freezing rain and fine ice pellets mixed in with the snow, but it's plenty white nonetheless.
"Merry Christmas" around the world...
Afrikaans: Geseënde Kersfees
Afrikander: Een Plesierige Kerfees
African/ Eritrean/ Tigrinja: Rehus-Beal-Ledeats
Albanian: Gezur Krislinjden
Arabic: Milad Majid
Argentine: Feliz Navidad
Armenian: Shenoraavor Nor Dari yev Pari Gaghand
Azeri: Tezze Iliniz Yahsi Olsun
Bahasa Malaysia: Selamat Hari Natal
Basque: Zorionak eta Urte Berri On!
Bengali: Shuvo Naba Barsha
Bohemian: Vesele Vanoce
Bosnian: (BOSANSKI) Cestit Bozic i Sretna Nova godina
Brazilian: Feliz Natal
Breton: Nedeleg laouen na bloavezh mat
Bulgarian: Tchestita Koleda; Tchestito Rojdestvo Hristovo
Catalan: Bon Nadal i un Bon Any Nou!
Chile: Feliz Navidad
Chinese: (Cantonese) Gun Tso Sun Tan'Gung Haw Sun
Chinese: (Mandarin) Sheng Dan Kuai Le
Choctaw: Yukpa, Nitak Hollo Chito
Columbia: Feliz Navidad y Próspero Año Nuevo
Cornish: Nadelik looan na looan blethen noweth
Corsian: Pace e salute
Crazanian: Rot Yikji Dol La Roo
Cree: Mitho Makosi Kesikansi
Croatian: Sretan Bozic
Czech: Prejeme Vam Vesele Vanoce a stastny Novy Rok
Danish: Glædelig Jul
Duri: Christmas-e- Shoma Mobarak
Dutch: Vrolijk Kerstfeest en een Gelukkig Nieuwjaar! or Zalig Kerstfeast
English: Merry Christmas
Eskimo: (inupik) Jutdlime pivdluarit ukiortame pivdluaritlo!
Esperanto: Gajan Kristnaskon
Estonian: Rõõmsaid Jõulupühi
Ethiopian: (Amharic) Melkin Yelidet Beaal
Faeroese: Gledhilig jol og eydnurikt nyggjar!
Farsi: Cristmas-e-shoma mobarak bashad
Finnish: Hyvaa joulua
Flemish: Zalig Kerstfeest en Gelukkig nieuw jaar
French: Joyeux Noel
Frisian: Noflike Krystdagen en in protte Lok en Seine yn it Nije Jier!
Galician: Bo Nada
Gaelic: Nollaig chridheil agus Bliadhna mhath ùr!
German: Fröhliche Weihnachten
Greek: Kala Christouyenna!
Haiti: (Creole) Jwaye Nowel or to Jesus Edo Bri'cho o Rish D'Shato Brichto
Hausa: Barka da Kirsimatikuma Barka da Sabuwar Shekara!
Hawaiian: Mele Kalikimaka
Hebrew: Mo'adim Lesimkha. Chena tova
Hindi: Shub Naya Baras (good New Year not Merry Christmas)
Hungarian: Boldog Karácsonyt
Icelandic: Gledileg Jol
Indonesian: Selamat Hari Natal
Iraqi: Idah Saidan Wa Sanah Jadidah
Irish: Nollaig Shona Dhuit, or Nodlaig mhaith chugnat
Iroquois: Ojenyunyat Sungwiyadeson honungradon nagwutut. Ojenyunyat osrasay.
Italian: Buone Feste Natalizie
Japanese: Shinnen omedeto. Kurisumasu Omedeto
Jiberish: Mithag Crithagsigathmithags
Korean: Sung Tan Chuk Ha
Kurdish: Serî sallî nwê pîroz
Lao: souksan van Christmas
Latin: Natale hilare et Annum Faustum!
Latvian: Prieci'gus Ziemsve'tkus un Laimi'gu Jauno Gadu!
Lausitzian: Wjesole hody a strowe nowe leto
Lettish: Priecigus Ziemassvetkus
Lithuanian: Linksmu Kaledu
Low Saxon: Heughliche Winachten un 'n moi Nijaar
Luxembourgish: Schèine Chreschtdaag an e gudde Rutsch
Macedonian: Sreken Bozhik
Maltese: IL-Milied It-tajjeb
Manx: Nollick ghennal as blein vie noa
Maori: Meri Kirihimete
Marathi: Shub Naya Varsh (good New Year not Merry Christmas)
Navajo: Merry Keshmish
Norwegian: God Jul, or Gledelig Jul
Occitan: Pulit nadal e bona annado
Papiamento: Bon Pasco
Papua New Guinea: Bikpela hamamas blong dispela Krismas na Nupela yia i go long yu
Pennsylvania German: En frehlicher Grischtdaag un en hallich Nei Yaahr!
Peru: Feliz Navidad y un Venturoso Año Nuevo
Philippines: Maligayang Pasko!
Polish: Wesolych Swiat Bozego Narodzenia or Boze Narodzenie
Portuguese: Feliz Natal
Pushto: Christmas Aao Ne-way Kaal Mo Mobarak Sha
Rapa-Nui (Easter Island): Mata-Ki-Te-Rangi. Te-Pito-O-Te-Henua
Rhetian: Bellas festas da nadal e bun onn
Romanche (sursilvan dialect): Legreivlas fiastas da Nadal e bien niev onn!
Rumanian: Sarbatori vesele or Craciun fericit
Russian: Pozdrevlyayu s prazdnikom Rozhdestva is Novim Godom
Sami: Buorrit Juovllat
Samoan: La Maunia Le Kilisimasi Ma Le Tausaga Fou
Sardinian: Bonu nadale e prosperu annu nou
Scots Gaelic: Nollaig Chridheil dhuibh
Serbian: Hristos se rodi.
Singhalese: Subha nath thalak Vewa. Subha Aluth Awrudhak Vewa
Slovak: Vesele Vianoce. A stastlivy Novy Rok
Slovene: Vesele Bozicne Praznike Srecno Novo Leto or Vesel Bozic in srecno Novo leto
Spanish: Feliz Navidad
Swedish: God Jul and (Och) Ett Gott Nytt År
Switzerland (Swiss-German): Schöni Wienachte
Tagalog: Maligayamg Pasko. Masaganang Bagong Taon
Tamil: (Tamizh) Nathar Puthu Varuda Valthukkal (good New Year not Merry Christmas)
Trukeese: (Micronesian) Neekiriisimas annim oo iyer seefe feyiyeech!
Thai: Sawadee Pee Mai or souksan wan Christmas
Turkish: Noeliniz Ve Yeni Yiliniz Kutlu Olsun
Ukrainian: Z Rizdvom Khrystovym or S rozhdestvom Kristovym
Urdu: Naya Saal Mubarak Ho (good New Year not Merry Christmas)
Vietnamese: Chuc Mung Giang Sinh
Welsh: Nadolig Llawen
Yoruba: E ku odun, e ku iye'dun!
Afrikaans: Geseënde Kersfees
Afrikander: Een Plesierige Kerfees
African/ Eritrean/ Tigrinja: Rehus-Beal-Ledeats
Albanian: Gezur Krislinjden
Arabic: Milad Majid
Argentine: Feliz Navidad
Armenian: Shenoraavor Nor Dari yev Pari Gaghand
Azeri: Tezze Iliniz Yahsi Olsun
Bahasa Malaysia: Selamat Hari Natal
Basque: Zorionak eta Urte Berri On!
Bengali: Shuvo Naba Barsha
Bohemian: Vesele Vanoce
Bosnian: (BOSANSKI) Cestit Bozic i Sretna Nova godina
Brazilian: Feliz Natal
Breton: Nedeleg laouen na bloavezh mat
Bulgarian: Tchestita Koleda; Tchestito Rojdestvo Hristovo
Catalan: Bon Nadal i un Bon Any Nou!
Chile: Feliz Navidad
Chinese: (Cantonese) Gun Tso Sun Tan'Gung Haw Sun
Chinese: (Mandarin) Sheng Dan Kuai Le
Choctaw: Yukpa, Nitak Hollo Chito
Columbia: Feliz Navidad y Próspero Año Nuevo
Cornish: Nadelik looan na looan blethen noweth
Corsian: Pace e salute
Crazanian: Rot Yikji Dol La Roo
Cree: Mitho Makosi Kesikansi
Croatian: Sretan Bozic
Czech: Prejeme Vam Vesele Vanoce a stastny Novy Rok
Danish: Glædelig Jul
Duri: Christmas-e- Shoma Mobarak
Dutch: Vrolijk Kerstfeest en een Gelukkig Nieuwjaar! or Zalig Kerstfeast
English: Merry Christmas
Eskimo: (inupik) Jutdlime pivdluarit ukiortame pivdluaritlo!
Esperanto: Gajan Kristnaskon
Estonian: Rõõmsaid Jõulupühi
Ethiopian: (Amharic) Melkin Yelidet Beaal
Faeroese: Gledhilig jol og eydnurikt nyggjar!
Farsi: Cristmas-e-shoma mobarak bashad
Finnish: Hyvaa joulua
Flemish: Zalig Kerstfeest en Gelukkig nieuw jaar
French: Joyeux Noel
Frisian: Noflike Krystdagen en in protte Lok en Seine yn it Nije Jier!
Galician: Bo Nada
Gaelic: Nollaig chridheil agus Bliadhna mhath ùr!
German: Fröhliche Weihnachten
Greek: Kala Christouyenna!
Haiti: (Creole) Jwaye Nowel or to Jesus Edo Bri'cho o Rish D'Shato Brichto
Hausa: Barka da Kirsimatikuma Barka da Sabuwar Shekara!
Hawaiian: Mele Kalikimaka
Hebrew: Mo'adim Lesimkha. Chena tova
Hindi: Shub Naya Baras (good New Year not Merry Christmas)
Hungarian: Boldog Karácsonyt
Icelandic: Gledileg Jol
Indonesian: Selamat Hari Natal
Iraqi: Idah Saidan Wa Sanah Jadidah
Irish: Nollaig Shona Dhuit, or Nodlaig mhaith chugnat
Iroquois: Ojenyunyat Sungwiyadeson honungradon nagwutut. Ojenyunyat osrasay.
Italian: Buone Feste Natalizie
Japanese: Shinnen omedeto. Kurisumasu Omedeto
Jiberish: Mithag Crithagsigathmithags
Korean: Sung Tan Chuk Ha
Kurdish: Serî sallî nwê pîroz
Lao: souksan van Christmas
Latin: Natale hilare et Annum Faustum!
Latvian: Prieci'gus Ziemsve'tkus un Laimi'gu Jauno Gadu!
Lausitzian: Wjesole hody a strowe nowe leto
Lettish: Priecigus Ziemassvetkus
Lithuanian: Linksmu Kaledu
Low Saxon: Heughliche Winachten un 'n moi Nijaar
Luxembourgish: Schèine Chreschtdaag an e gudde Rutsch
Macedonian: Sreken Bozhik
Maltese: IL-Milied It-tajjeb
Manx: Nollick ghennal as blein vie noa
Maori: Meri Kirihimete
Marathi: Shub Naya Varsh (good New Year not Merry Christmas)
Navajo: Merry Keshmish
Norwegian: God Jul, or Gledelig Jul
Occitan: Pulit nadal e bona annado
Papiamento: Bon Pasco
Papua New Guinea: Bikpela hamamas blong dispela Krismas na Nupela yia i go long yu
Pennsylvania German: En frehlicher Grischtdaag un en hallich Nei Yaahr!
Peru: Feliz Navidad y un Venturoso Año Nuevo
Philippines: Maligayang Pasko!
Polish: Wesolych Swiat Bozego Narodzenia or Boze Narodzenie
Portuguese: Feliz Natal
Pushto: Christmas Aao Ne-way Kaal Mo Mobarak Sha
Rapa-Nui (Easter Island): Mata-Ki-Te-Rangi. Te-Pito-O-Te-Henua
Rhetian: Bellas festas da nadal e bun onn
Romanche (sursilvan dialect): Legreivlas fiastas da Nadal e bien niev onn!
Rumanian: Sarbatori vesele or Craciun fericit
Russian: Pozdrevlyayu s prazdnikom Rozhdestva is Novim Godom
Sami: Buorrit Juovllat
Samoan: La Maunia Le Kilisimasi Ma Le Tausaga Fou
Sardinian: Bonu nadale e prosperu annu nou
Scots Gaelic: Nollaig Chridheil dhuibh
Serbian: Hristos se rodi.
Singhalese: Subha nath thalak Vewa. Subha Aluth Awrudhak Vewa
Slovak: Vesele Vianoce. A stastlivy Novy Rok
Slovene: Vesele Bozicne Praznike Srecno Novo Leto or Vesel Bozic in srecno Novo leto
Spanish: Feliz Navidad
Swedish: God Jul and (Och) Ett Gott Nytt År
Switzerland (Swiss-German): Schöni Wienachte
Tagalog: Maligayamg Pasko. Masaganang Bagong Taon
Tamil: (Tamizh) Nathar Puthu Varuda Valthukkal (good New Year not Merry Christmas)
Trukeese: (Micronesian) Neekiriisimas annim oo iyer seefe feyiyeech!
Thai: Sawadee Pee Mai or souksan wan Christmas
Turkish: Noeliniz Ve Yeni Yiliniz Kutlu Olsun
Ukrainian: Z Rizdvom Khrystovym or S rozhdestvom Kristovym
Urdu: Naya Saal Mubarak Ho (good New Year not Merry Christmas)
Vietnamese: Chuc Mung Giang Sinh
Welsh: Nadolig Llawen
Yoruba: E ku odun, e ku iye'dun!
Happy Christmas everyone.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
Thanks, man. Happy holidays to you.
Uh, Italian, Latin and Sardinian are wrong.
In Italian, "Buone feste natalizie" would be "Happy christmas holidays": technically correct, but unusual. So it's either "Buon Natale", or "Buone feste".
In Latin, "Natale hilare" means "Funny Christmas" (the case is also wrong): a more accurate translation would be "Felicem Natalem (Christi)".
In Sardinian, the common greeting is "Bona Paschixedda".
Merry Christmas and glad tidings to all!
A
Amaris
Guest
Merry Christmas and best of the New Year from an old-fashioned Santa to everyone on the TrekBBS.
(spreading some old-fashioned cheer at the local Brockville Employment And Education Centre.)
Merry Christmas Warped9, and I am seriously digging that suit.
Happy Holidays to everyone, and may it be full of love and cheer.
An amusing interpretation.
'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
We all were hungover, even the mouse.
The stockings were thrown by the chimney without care
In hopes in the morning some new shit would be there.
The children were nestled all snug in their beds
While the wife and I nursed our sore heads.
And the wife in my t-shirt and I with no pants
Crashed faced down for at least a short nap.
When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,
I dragged myself up to see what was the matter.
Staggering to the window I tripped on Mom’s jacket,
Thinking “I’ll kill the fucker making all that racket.”
The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow
To me without glasses looked like a blurred glow.
When what to my bleary eyes should appear,
But a fucking real sleigh and eight mangy reindeer.
The little old driver looked kinda sick,
Still I wondered if the idiot could be St. Nick.
More rapid than eagles his coursers they came,
And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name;
"Whoa, Dasher! Whoa, Dancer! Whoa, Prancer and Vixen!
Oh, c’mon whoa, Comet, Cupid, Donner and Blitzen!
To the top of the porch! to the top of the wall!”
But they slid right off the roof’s edge and fell to the lawn.
As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly,
St. Nick cursed his displeasure up at the sky.
With the sleigh full of toys now toppled on its side,
St. Nick was damned lucky all he’d hurt was his pride.
Still up to the house-top St. Nicholas climbed,
Determined somehow to still get inside.
And then in amazement I heard on the roof
The scraping and sliding of that crazy coot’s boots.
Just as I thought of where I’d hidden my stash,
Down the chimney St. Nick came with a crash.
He was trimmed out in fur, from his head to his foot,
And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot.
A bundle of toys he'd had flung on his back,
Was now spilled over the floor in a haphazard stack.
His eyes should have twinkled and his dimples be merry,
But his face was flushed and his breath stank of stale sherry.
His droll little mouth should have been drawn up like a bow,
But the little guy was swearing as he shook off wet snow.
The stump of a joint he held tight in his teeth,
And the scent of grass circled his head like a wreath.
He had a broad face and didn’t look fit,
Yet I’d never imagined him smelling like deer shit.
I’d hardly call him a right jolly old elf,
And I laughed as I watched him, in spite of myself;
But a glare in his eye and the cant of his head,
Soon made me wonder if I had something to dread.
Still he spoke not a word, but went straight to his work,
And filled all the stockings and called me a jerk,
With a wet hankerchief he then blew his nose,
And turning his back up the chimney he rose.
He climbed down to his sleigh, his team had since righted,
And away they all flew not caring they’d been sighted.
But I heard him exclaim, ere they rose from the snow,
"That’s the last one, boys. Ho, ho, fucking ho!”
'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
We all were hungover, even the mouse.
The stockings were thrown by the chimney without care
In hopes in the morning some new shit would be there.
The children were nestled all snug in their beds
While the wife and I nursed our sore heads.
And the wife in my t-shirt and I with no pants
Crashed faced down for at least a short nap.
When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,
I dragged myself up to see what was the matter.
Staggering to the window I tripped on Mom’s jacket,
Thinking “I’ll kill the fucker making all that racket.”
The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow
To me without glasses looked like a blurred glow.
When what to my bleary eyes should appear,
But a fucking real sleigh and eight mangy reindeer.
The little old driver looked kinda sick,
Still I wondered if the idiot could be St. Nick.
More rapid than eagles his coursers they came,
And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name;
"Whoa, Dasher! Whoa, Dancer! Whoa, Prancer and Vixen!
Oh, c’mon whoa, Comet, Cupid, Donner and Blitzen!
To the top of the porch! to the top of the wall!”
But they slid right off the roof’s edge and fell to the lawn.
As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly,
St. Nick cursed his displeasure up at the sky.
With the sleigh full of toys now toppled on its side,
St. Nick was damned lucky all he’d hurt was his pride.
Still up to the house-top St. Nicholas climbed,
Determined somehow to still get inside.
And then in amazement I heard on the roof
The scraping and sliding of that crazy coot’s boots.
Just as I thought of where I’d hidden my stash,
Down the chimney St. Nick came with a crash.
He was trimmed out in fur, from his head to his foot,
And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot.
A bundle of toys he'd had flung on his back,
Was now spilled over the floor in a haphazard stack.
His eyes should have twinkled and his dimples be merry,
But his face was flushed and his breath stank of stale sherry.
His droll little mouth should have been drawn up like a bow,
But the little guy was swearing as he shook off wet snow.
The stump of a joint he held tight in his teeth,
And the scent of grass circled his head like a wreath.
He had a broad face and didn’t look fit,
Yet I’d never imagined him smelling like deer shit.
I’d hardly call him a right jolly old elf,
And I laughed as I watched him, in spite of myself;
But a glare in his eye and the cant of his head,
Soon made me wonder if I had something to dread.
Still he spoke not a word, but went straight to his work,
And filled all the stockings and called me a jerk,
With a wet hankerchief he then blew his nose,
And turning his back up the chimney he rose.
He climbed down to his sleigh, his team had since righted,
And away they all flew not caring they’d been sighted.
But I heard him exclaim, ere they rose from the snow,
"That’s the last one, boys. Ho, ho, fucking ho!”
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