May 2010 be better than '09 for all of us.

Psst--hey, you Certain Someone--care to share your good news of today here?

you talking to me? :¬ )

Happy New Year all, though we still have four hours to go here!

Well, Happy New Year and here's a good luck charm for everyone of you. They're a bit dusty as I kept them since summer but after a bit of brushing they will work.

Happy New Year!
Wishing you all moments of joy, moments of peace, moments of exhilaration, moments of contentment and moments that take your breath away.

you talking to me? Yepperoonie!

Thanks, Branny and Zed; cool, both of you!

I like the sound of all these.

Here's my wish & hope for pervasive, pleasant peace.

Happy New Year!! The Year of the Tiger!

my calendar(s) say that the Lunar New Year is celebrated tomorrow, or are you getting the jump on Valentine's Day, or are you talking about some other, more obscure New Year? just making sure I celebrate the right thing here..

Chinese new year starts on the second new moon of the year. Tomorrow Feb.14
You can celebrate what best becomes you. The tiger or the heart. (or both)
(adding Chinese horoscope details)
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Must say I find the outcome for my antecedents strikingly accurate.

A) It's already tomorrow in China

and

2) Since when do you have to wait until the ball drops before wishing someone a happy new year?

Since when do you have to wait until the ball drops before wishing someone a happy new year?

When you're in Japan speaking Japanese. They have two different salutations: one for before the new year, and the other for after. Can't use either in the wrong context.

Umm... Perhaps you hadn't noticed, Nuncle, but if you look very carefully, you'll see that I'm not in Japan speaking Japanese.

Perhaps you hadn't noticed, Nuncle, but if you look very carefully, you'll see that I'm not in Japan speaking Japanese.

Hmm. It's hard to tell, but perhaps you're right ...

Nihongo-wa wakarimasen.

It's snowing again today! Though Valentine is an imported thing: here's to you all for celebrations; it's also carnival in the South of Holland and Belgium).


Subtitle: " A heart that melts can never be broken."

It's also carnival in the South of Holland and Belgium

Alaaf! De Zoch kütt.

Ha! The Alaaf is international."De Zoch kütt" is really outlandish. Something with camels?

"De Zoch kütt" is really outlandish. Something with camels?

Ha! Bubbels Do Bönnsch nit? It's Bonner dialect for "der Zug kommt". ("The parade is coming.)

Bibelebons? Nee.
I saw some entries and couldn't get any sense out of it.
That's far more difficult than Schweizer Deutsch. Funny dialect.

That's far more difficult than Schweizer Deutsch.

When I lived in Bonn, a guy moved into an apartment in my building and I took him to my Stammkneipe one evening for a drink. One of my Rhenish informants came up to tell me some joke in Kölsch. After he did and I made note of it in a little book I always kept with me, the guy left, and my new neighbor (who was only from as far away as Wuppertal) turned to me and exclaimed in English. "Good God. What was that man speaking? It was no kind of German I could understand." Some of my informants really couldn't speak Hochdeutsch only the local dialect.

Funny dialect.

Now them's fightin' words! Grr. Funny story, the third (or fourth) printing press was established in Cologne, and the books published were one-third in Latin, another in Dutch, and the final third in Kölsch. Luther had yet to establish his Saxon brand of German as a literary standard.

Thank you for sharing. It really does illuminate the difficulties with the Word alone as worldwide communication, doesn't it? That's why I AM certain that music is the Universal language, really, highlighted by the Word. Nice story. Thanks.