Re: CHAT: Happy New Year! Parinaye!

On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Padraic Brown wrote:

> On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Irina Rempt wrote:
>
> >The New Year is almost two years old here, and it came in without
>                         ^^^^^^^^^
> Is this some quaint Olde Worlde Dutch tradition that the rest of us
> don't know about?  Is it 2002 already in the Netherlands? Or is it
> the vinho verde and Irish swill talking? ;)
Heh. You caught it before I did :-)

I must be so used to writing "x years old" that it came out of my
fingers without thinking. I wasn't even *that* drunk, just very tired
at 1:48 in the morning.

By the way, _parinaye_ literally means "enjoy yourselves", "have
fun", and it's used for "cheers!"

   Irina

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