You're from Birmingham?!I call it Winterval
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You're from Birmingham?!I call it Winterval
I've nothing done for the Christmas. Starting to worry. Does anyone else detest Christmas shopping?
I thought that saying “The Christmas” instead of “Christmas” was a Hiberno-English thing carried over from the Irish language and the way in which “Christmas” is said as Gaelige- “An Nollaig”, ie. The Christmas.
There are lots of "incorrect" syntaxes and turns of phrase that Irish people use when speaking English that have been carried over from Irish grammar, which we’re generally not aware of but make little sense to people from outside of Ireland, e.g. “I’m after having my lunch” instead of “I have just had lunch” and that sort of thing.
We've been doing it for hundreds of years and as such it's an 'acquired linguistic pattern' or something, and not bad English. So there's nothing actually wrong with saying "The Christmas"; in fact, you could be considered to be showing pride in your heritage.
I thought that saying “The Christmas” instead of “Christmas” was a Hiberno-English thing carried over from the Irish language and the way in which “Christmas” is said as Gaelige- “An Nollaig”, ie. The Christmas.
There are lots of "incorrect" syntaxes and turns of phrase that Irish people use when speaking English that have been carried over from Irish grammar, which we’re generally not aware of but make little sense to people from outside of Ireland, e.g. “I’m after having my lunch” instead of “I have just had lunch” and that sort of thing.
We've been doing it for hundreds of years and as such it's an 'acquired linguistic pattern' or something, and not bad English. So there's nothing actually wrong with saying "The Christmas"; in fact, you could be considered to be showing pride in your heritage.
I see you've decorated your avatar. I thought you might change it to a menorah. An electric one. In every window. Even though you're not Jewish."you could be considered to be showing pride in your heritage."
From now on I will be calling it 'ye christmas'
out of respect for my ancestors
I see you've decorated your avatar. I thought you might change it to a menorah. An electric one. In every window. Even though you're not Jewish.
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