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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.
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Umm... Perhaps you hadn't noticed, Nuncle, but if you look very carefully, you'll see that I'm not in Japan speaking Japanese.
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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 ...
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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.. 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."
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It's also carnival in the South of Holland and Belgium
Alaaf! De Zoch kütt.
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Ha! The Alaaf is international."De Zoch kütt" is really outlandish. Something with camels?
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"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.)
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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.
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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.
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