Re: Santa Claus WAS: meanings not in english

En réponse à Joe Fatula :


>I wonder how many people participate in (what is to me the quite ridiculous)
>Santa Claus thing, and to what degree.  I know that at least my family
>thinks it's stupid.
My family has always participated in it, as well as everyone I ever met in
France (whether religious or not), except the neighbours of my parents who
are Jehovah's Witnesses (but pretty liberal ones). However, I never really
believed in it (difficult when your parents say that Santa, or rather "Père
Noël" here :)) , gives the presents, but that they are the ones that send
him the money to get them ;)))) - it was their trick to make me limit my
demands ;)) -). My sister, on the other hand, believed in it until she was
6 and was pretty mad at my parents when she learned he did not exist as an
actual living character ;))) .

Here in Holland people rather do Sinterklaas (Saint Nicholas). Santa is
considered to be only a commercial American thing. And since Sinterklaas is
actually a Christian feast, the more Christian the family is the more
celebrated it gets ;)) . Still, the myth has quite changed, since
Sinterklaas now lives in Spain, comes by boat to the Netherlands (always in
front of the camera and with an official welcome ;))) ) and rides with his
horse on the roofs of the houses to distribute the presents to the nice
Christian children ;))) .

Christophe Grandsire.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.

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