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- Subject: Re: HAPPY NEW YEAR in 100 Languages...
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.140518.14750@newssrv.edvz.univie.ac.at>
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 13:56:42 GMT
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- Re: <1993Jan8.034758.1@climat.geology.yale.edu>
- writes:
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- > German Froehliches Neues Jahr ! (Happy New Year)
-
- This is only a literal translation of "Happy New Year", at least in
- my Austrian variety of German. Here we say "Froehliche Weihnachten" (happy
- Christmas) and "(ein) gutes neues Jahr" ((a) good new year).
-
- Gertraud
- A5711daa@awiuni11.edvz.univie.ac.at
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