Also, happy belated Thanksgiving to Canadians, happy early Thanksgiving to US Americans, happy early Hanukkah (or however you’re supposed to spell that) to Jews, merry early Christmas to non-Jewish US Americans, and happy early Christmas to non-Jewish non-US-Americans.
Okay, I think I got all the major holidays there.
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Comments
ais523:
The Brits among us are upset you didn’t mention Bonfire Night. (Not that it’s all that relevant anyway nowadays…)
Klisz:
I’ve never heard of Bonfire Night.
Ienpw III:
They light huge bonfires in celebration of Guy Fawkes’s attempt to blow up parliment.
You also completely skipped Easter, Kwanzaa, and several others.
Excalabur:
It’s also not Hallowe’en anymore, and hasn’t been for some time where /I/ am.
Thanks for the wishes, though.
Ienpw III:
Excalabur: do you even celebrate Halloween in Australia?
Klisz:
Excalabur is Australian?
And I have a 10-year-old cousin who grew up in Australia thanks to his dad being in the military, and he celebrates Halloween. However, he does have an American family…
Klisz:
Also, looking at this post again, I realize that the USA needs a better demonym. “American” is too ambiguous as it could mean “of or relating to the USA” or “of or relating to the Americas”. “US American” sounds somewhat bad.
Therefore, I have settled on “Usan” from now on.
Klisz:
One more thing: How do you use the IP to Nation utility anyway? Whenever I try, it says I’m not authorized.
Wakukee:
×—× ×•×›×” is the proper spelling. Or, anything in english that vaguely sounds like it.
Excalabur:
DC: I’m not Australian, but I live there.
Klisz:
∀x[Lx→Ax]
∀x[Ex→Lx]
∴ ∀x[Ex→Ax]
Where Lx means “X lives in Australia”, Ax means “X is Australian”, and Ex means “X is Excalabur”.
Klisz:
Also, is it just me, or do the Hebrew letters Heth (×”) and He (×—) look very similar? Luckily, they make very similar sounds.
Also, it’s odd how in Hebrew they represent a final -a with a letter which normall represents /h/.
spikebrennan:
Eid was a month and a half ago. Kwanzaa starts on Dec. 26.
A co-worker of mine was reading her October calendar and noticed that Canadian Thanksgiving is in October. She remarked about this, and I explained, “It’s because of the metric system. Their months are longer. Also, this is the reason why a Canadian dollar is only worth about seventy-five cents.” She thought that this was perfectly plausible.
If memory serves, Queen Elizabeth II’s birthday is celebrated on different days in Australia and in New Zealand.
Ienpw III:
The Queen has two birthdays anyway: one private and one public.
Qwazukee:
@DC: The “-a” sound is not represented by the letter Hey (×”) which you confused with Het (×—). The -a sound is actually from a vowel under the ×› which you don’t see because Hebrew-speakers just assume you know what vowels ought to be there.
And a lot of Hebrew block letters look very similar, those 2 aren’t any more so than others.