Re: OT Thanksgiving was Re: Thoughts on Tarsyanian verbs

On Sat, 01 Oct 2005, 03:10 CEST, João Ricardo de Mendonça
wrote:

 > On 9/30/05, wayne chevrier <wachevrier@hotmail.com
<mailto:wachevrier@...>> wrote:
 >> tomhchappell nevesht:
 >> >
 >> >That suggests some OT SURVEY questions:- What is/are
 >> >your home nation
 >> >(s), and do they have a National Day of Thanks-Giving
 >> >annually, and
 >> >if so, when is it?

I don't know. However, Erntedank is only a "church holiday",
so not an official one.

 > No Thanksgiving in Brazil. I thought it was a USA-only
 > holiday. Wikipedia says it is celebrated in USA and
 > Canada. I take it that Carsten Becker is from Germany,
 > from the .de in the email address. But if Germany has
 > a thanksgiving day, is it somehow related to the North
 > American thanksgiving?

I come from Germany, yes. The only thing I have learnt in
English lessons is that on Thanksgiving, you eat Turkey. :-/
However, the day called "Erntedank" ("Harvest thank") is not
celebrated as it is in Northern America, it's -- as I said
above -- only a holiday celebrated in church actually. A
question for you, João: Why do Americans put up a Christmas
Tree? Is it necessarily an American invention? What I mean
is, both German and English culture (as well as the cultures
of other Germanic langs) share in some parts the same
cultural background, so why shouldn't we have some kind of
Thanksgiving as well, or the Christmas Tree? Both do not
necessarily need to be an American/English invention.
Anyway, my German/English dicitonary says:

 | thanksgiving /,T&Nks'gIvIN/ Noun. 1) Thanksgiving (Day)
 | -> Holiday in the USA and in Canada. Thanksgiving Day
 | is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November in the
 | US and on the second Monday in October in Canada.
 | Originally it was the _Erntedankfest_ ("Harvest Thanking
 | Holiday"). 2) ...

Erntedankfest ~= Thanksgiving, but not quite.

Carsten

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