Re: Happy New Year
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, December 31, 2004, 23:18 |
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On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 05:47:12PM -0500, # 1 wrote:
> Bonne et heureuse Nouvelle Année!
Qu'est-ce que "heureuse" signifie?
> ¡Felicito las pascuas a ustedes! (~)
The usual Spanish greeting is "Próspero Año", literally "prosperous
year". You can stick a "nuevo" on the end if you want, but it's
understood. I think "pascua" is Easter/Passover - certainly some sort
of new year, but not the one that starts tonight.
> Buon anno a lei (~~)
Like German "Sie", Italian "Lei" is capitalized when it means "you".
Strictly interpreted, the above means "Good year to her". Wonder who
this mystery female is to be so singled out? :) I also think the
traditional Italian "happy new year" is something like "Buon capo di
anno", but I'm not sure.
If we're contributing things other than our own conlangs:
Esperanto: Feliĉan novan jaron!
Klingon: qaStaHvIS DIS chu' bIQuchjaj!
Anything else I can think of, someone else on the list knows better than
I do. Well, others know Esperanto and Klingon better, too, but at least
they're not native speakers of them. :)
-Marcos
> Here, the new year is in 6 hours and a quarter, but in Europe it is in a few
> minutes and everywhere at the east it is past so happy new year 2005!
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