Holiday Traditions

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

I am loving all of these traditions!

Seela, you reminded me that I absolutely must watch The Grinch Who Stole Christmas every year. The original, not the movie... so thanks! Very much enjoyed, with the requisite hot chocolate to boot, of course!

Lally - As your tradition involves distraction, I think I would be very, very good at it...

 

[DiskoTroop]

Each Christmas day I go to the crappiest Chinese restaurant I can find and invariably there will be a family there making the best of their situation. I quietly pay for their meal and depart.

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

Hey! I might be picking up on this stuff...
Jul = Christmas. Yes?
So seela wished a happy Christmas in two languages, I'm guessing...
Cumference thanked her for that, and for something else
And Iris is wishing happy Christmas back!
How am I doing?

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

Each Christmas day I go to the crappiest Chinese restaurant I can find and invariably there will be a family there making the best of their situation. I quietly pay for their meal and depart.

That is lovely
I'm sure those families remember that Christmas forever!

 

[Cumference]

Hey! I might be picking up on this stuff...
Jul = Christmas. Yes?
So seela wished a happy Christmas in two languages, I'm guessing...
Cumference thanked her for that, and for something else
And Iris is wishing happy Christmas back!
How am I doing?

Doing quite well.

Old Norse "jól" gave rise to yule and jul.

The Scandinavian languages are so similar, that they actually both were valid in Danish.
"God" means good, and "glædelig" means merry.

My reply was a thank you, and a semi formal "thanks and I hope the same must apply for you".

And Iris' answer was in Swedish.

 

[Curious_in_Cali]

New tradition: 24 hours of PJs and indulging in whatever I want to eat and drink until I'm merry.

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

Doing quite well.

Old Norse "jól" gave rise to yule and jul.

The Scandinavian languages are so similar, that they actually both were valid in Danish.
"God" means good, and "glædelig" means merry.

My reply was a thank you, and a semi formal "thanks and I hope the same must apply for you".

And Iris' answer was in Swedish.

Thanks! It feels like I will be speaking several new languages on no time..

New tradition: 24 hours of PJs and indulging in whatever I want to eat and drink until I'm merry.

I like this one! Definitely a keeper...

Merry Christmas everyone!!
I hope it's magical for you all!

 

[Curious_in_Cali]

Thanks for making my holiday a little brighter with your wonderful Youness.

Hope your Christmas is magically good to you!

 

[IrisAlthea]

Hey! I might be picking up on this stuff...
Jul = Christmas. Yes?
So seela wished a happy Christmas in two languages, I'm guessing...
Cumference thanked her for that, and for something else
And Iris is wishing happy Christmas back!
How am I doing?

Doing quite well.

Old Norse "jól" gave rise to yule and jul.

The Scandinavian languages are so similar, that they actually both were valid in Danish.
"God" means good, and "glædelig" means merry.

My reply was a thank you, and a semi formal "thanks and I hope the same must apply for you".

And Iris' answer was in Swedish.

Yup, what he said.
Swedish and Danish are really similar as well as Norwegian. Some words can cause confusion though. Like Danish calm (rolig) is Swedish fun.
I think that actually says a lot.

Each Christmas day I go to the crappiest Chinese restaurant I can find and invariably there will be a family there making the best of their situation. I quietly pay for their meal and depart.

Wonderful tradition!

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

Yup, what he said.
Swedish and Danish are really similar as well as Norwegian. Some words can cause confusion though. Like Danish calm (rolig) is Swedish fun.
I think that actually says a lot.

That does speak volumes...!!
So... what is Danish fun?

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

Thanks for making my holiday a little brighter with your wonderful Youness.

Hope your Christmas is magically good to you!

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

Boxing day is coming up, yes?
Post your boxing day traditions, if you have any!

 

[Daddysbadgirl69]

Boxing day is coming up, yes?
Post your boxing day traditions, if you have any!

Family tradition: family game night, drinking and apps

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

Family tradition: family game night, drinking and apps

Now then, drinking is a tradition rarely mentioned, but I suspect widely practised perfect!
Family game night is so cool! I am partial to card games, backgammon and dominoes

 

[Cumference]

That does speak volumes...!!
So... what is Danish fun?

"Sjov"

There are quite a few false friends in the Danish/swedish relationship.

The leek (vegetable) is called "porre" in Danish. Since the "e" is silent, it is pronouced like the Swedish "porr", which means "porn".

Sending the kids to the greengrocer to buy some leeks, tend to make the Swedes raise an eyebrow.

 

[Cumference]

And a real classic:

A Swedish girl putting on her dress, asking her Danish boyfriend to button her in the back.
"är du snäll att knäppa mig?" (Are you nice to button me?)

"ä" is an "ae"-sound.

The problem here is, that "knappe" in Danish is "to button up" but "kneppe" is to "fuck hard".

(Had it been the mother in law asking, things could have been more complicated)

 

[seela]

And a real classic:

A Swedish girl putting on her dress, asking her Danish boyfriend to button her in the back.
"är du snäll att knäppa mig?" (Are you nice to button me?)

"ä" is an "ae"-sound.

The problem here is, that "knappe" in Danish is "to button up" but "kneppe" is to "fuck hard".

(Had it been the mother in law asking, things could have been more complicated)

I wonder why most of the false friends seem to be really embarrassing to get wrong.

I still sometimes talk about "my idiot" when I'm supposed to talk about "my boyfriend" in Polish. Thank you, false friends.

In Finnish we don't need false friends, we have case endings to make sure foreigners make a fool of themselves.

Nain sinut - I marry you. Nain sinua - I fuck you.

 

[IrisAlthea]

Boxingday here is a bit like Black Friday is in the US. A lot of people spend the day bargain hunting.
We had a long slow late breakfast and then drove in the other direction from everybody else and took a walk in the snowy woods. We had coffee/hot chocolate in a nice little lodge with a great view and will spend the rest of the afternoon with the Christmas books.

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

I wonder why most of the false friends seem to be really embarrassing to get wrong.

I still sometimes talk about "my idiot" when I'm supposed to talk about "my boyfriend" in Polish. Thank you, false friends.

In Finnish we don't need false friends, we have case endings to make sure foreigners make a fool of themselves.

Nain sinut - I marry you. Nain sinua - I fuck you.

I ran into things like this all the time when learning to speak Spanish, but with words that were not so close... For some reason I could never get abogado and albondigo right - one is lawyer and the other is meatball

Boxingday here is a bit like Black Friday is in the US. A lot of people spend the day bargain hunting.
We had a long slow late breakfast and then drove in the other direction from everybody else and took a walk in the snowy woods. We had coffee/hot chocolate in a nice little lodge with a great view and will spend the rest of the afternoon with the Christmas books.

Your version sounds much better than bargain hunting!! Today is another crazy shopping day here as well.

 

[LallyH]

Hubby won the Brussel Sprout Challenge I thought I'd foiled him because I caught him sneaking his onto daughter's plate as he took it from the kitchen to the table. As I had counted each one, i soon spotted that he'd moved his onto her plate, so it was swiftly moved back. Son's tactic of moving his to hubby's was a non starter because I'd covered his in gravy and hubby is vegetarian. But eventually I was blindsided in a swift table clearing move where I was distracted serving dessert, and hubby managed to get his into the bin before I could catch him

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

So, I'm curious if anyone in your house actually eats said sprouts?

 

[LallyH]

I do Daughter does too, including ones belonging to a male of the family in return for a monetary consideration....

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

I do Daughter does too, including ones belonging to a male of the family in return for a monetary consideration....

Hah! Your daughter should go far in life

 

[Endless_Night]

< There are quite a few false friends in the Danish/swedish relationship. >

< I wonder why most of the false friends seem to be really embarrassing to get wrong. >

I was completely unaware the term "false friends" was applicable to language. Interesting.

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

I was completely unaware the term "false friends" was applicable to language. Interesting.

Yes, and that has got to be the best way to see it used!!