Off To The Mall

Twas the day before Christmas, and all through the mall ... the shoppers were shopping and having a ball.  There were bargains everywhere, if you had any money to spend.  But do you know what we noticed as we did our daily walk this morning at Park City?   The vast majority of the shoppers were men!  And maybe they were smart this year in waiting, as most men usually do, to the last minute.  For there were bargains as merchants tried desparately to unload their merchandise in a year when most folks have been forced to cut down.  Oh well, time to shop is now over.  Next comes the time to open the gifts.  Then comes the time to pay the bills. And shopping in the mall has become an international experience with so many languages heard.  So, accept my wish for a Merry Christmas, no matter where you may be this year or how you may say it. Afrikaans: Gesëende Kersfees, Afrikander: Een Plesierige Kerfees, African/ Eritrean/ Tigrinja: Rehus-Beal-Ledeats, Albanian:Gezur Krislinjden, Arabic: Milad Majid, Argentine: Feliz Navidad, Armenian: Shenoraavor Nor Dari yev Pari Gaghand, Azeri: Tezze Iliniz Yahsi Olsun, Bahasa Malaysia: Selamat Hari Natal, Basque: Zorionak eta Urte Berri On!, Bengali: Shuvo Naba Barsha, Bohemian: Vesele Vanoce, Brazilian: Feliz Natal, Breton: Nedeleg laouen na bloavezh mat, Bulgarian: Tchestita Koleda; Tchestito Rojdestvo Hristovo, Catalan: Bon Nadal i un Bon Any Nou!, Chile: Feliz Navidad, Chinese: (Cantonese) Gun Tso Sun Tan'Gung Haw Sun, Chinese: (Mandarin) Kung His Hsin Nien bing Chu Shen Tan, (Catonese) Gun Tso Sun Tan'Gung Haw Sun, Choctaw: Yukpa, Nitak Hollo Chito, Columbia: Feliz Navidad y Próspero Año Nuevo, Cornish: Nadelik looan na looan blethen noweth, Corsian: Pace e salute, Crazanian: Rot Yikji Dol La Roo, Cree: Mitho Makosi Kesikansi, Croatian: Sretan Bozicm, Czech: Prejeme Vam Vesele Vanoce a stastny Novy Rok, Danish: Glædelig Jul, Duri: Christmas-e- Shoma Mobarak, Dutch: Vrolijk Kerstfeest en een Gelukkig Nieuwjaar! or Zalig Kerstfeast, English: Merry Christmas, Eskimo: (inupik) Jutdlime pivdluarit ukiortame pivdluaritlo!, Esperanto: Gajan Kristnaskon, Estonian: Ruumsaid juulup|hi, Ethiopian: (Amharic) Melkin Yelidet Beaal, Faeroese: Gledhilig jol og eydnurikt nyggjar!, Farsi: Cristmas-e-shoma mobarak bashad, Finnish: Hyvaa joulua, Flemish: Zalig Kerstfeest en Gelukkig nieuw jaar, French: Joyeux Noel, Frisian: Noflike Krystdagen en in protte Lok en Seine yn it Nije Jier!, Galician: Bo Nada, Gaelic: Nollaig chridheil agus Bliadhna mhath ùr! German: Froehliche Weihnachten, Greek: Kala Christouyenna!, Haiti: (Creole) Jwaye Nowel or to Jesus Edo Bri'cho o Rish D'Shato Brichto, Hausa: Barka da Kirsimatikuma Barka da Sabuwar Shekara!, Hawaiian: Mele Kalikimaka, Hebrew: Mo'adim Lesimkha. Chena tova, Hindi: Shub Naya Baras, Hausa: Barka da Kirsimatikuma Barka da Sabuwar Shekara, Hawaian: Mele Kalikimaka ame Hauoli Makahiki Hou!, Hungarian: Kellemes Karacsonyi unnepeket, Icelandic: Gledileg Jol, Indonesian: Selamat Hari Natal, Iraqi: Idah Saidan Wa Sanah Jadidah, Irish: Nollaig Shona Dhuit, or Nodlaig mhaith chugnat, Iroquois: Ojenyunyat Sungwiyadeson honungradon nagwutut. Ojenyunyat osrasay., Italian: Buone Feste Natalizie, Japanese: Shinnen omedeto. Kurisumasu Omedeto, Jiberish: Mithag Crithagsigathmithags, Korean: Sung Tan Chuk Ha, Lao: souksan van Christmas, Latin: Natale hilare et Annum Faustum!, Latvian: Prieci'gus Ziemsve'tkus un Laimi'gu Jauno Gadu!, Lausitzian:Wjesole hody a strowe nowe leto, Lettish: Priecigus Ziemassvetkus, Lithuanian: Linksmu Kaledu, Low Saxon: Heughliche Winachten un 'n moi Nijaar, Macedonian: Sreken Bozhik, Maltese: IL-Milied It-tajjeb, Manx: Nollick ghennal as blein vie noa, Maori: Meri Kirihimete, Marathi: Shub Naya Varsh, Navajo: Merry Keshmish, Norwegian: God Jul, or Gledelig Jul, Occitan: Pulit nadal e bona annado, Papiamento: Bon Pasco, Papua New Guinea: Bikpela hamamas blong dispela Krismas na Nupela yia i go long yu, Pennsylvania German: En frehlicher Grischtdaag un en hallich Nei Yaahr!, Peru: Feliz Navidad y un Venturoso Año Nuevo, Philipines: Maligayan Pasko!, Polish: Wesolych Swiat Bozego Narodzenia or Boze Narodzenie, Portuguese:Feliz Natal,  Pushto: Christmas Aao Ne-way Kaal Mo Mobarak Sha, Rapa-Nui (Easter Island): Mata-Ki-Te-Rangi. Te-Pito-O-Te-Henua, Rhetian: Bellas festas da nadal e bun onn, Romanche: (sursilvan dialect): Legreivlas fiastas da Nadal e bien niev onn!, Rumanian: Sarbatori vesele, Russian: Pozdrevlyayu s prazdnikom Rozhdestva is Novim Godom, Sami: Buorrit Juovllat, Samoan: La Maunia Le Kilisimasi Ma Le Tausaga Fou, Sardinian: Bonu nadale e prosperu annu nou, Serbian: Hristos se rodi, Slovakian: Sretan Bozic or Vesele vianoce, Sami: Buorrit Juovllat, Samoan: La Maunia Le Kilisimasi Ma Le Tausaga Fou, Scots Gaelic: Nollaig chridheil huibh, Serb-Croatian: Sretam Bozic. Vesela Nova Godina, Serbian: Hristos se rodi., Singhalese: Subha nath thalak Vewa. Subha Aluth Awrudhak Vewa, Slovak: Vesele Vianoce. A stastlivy Novy Rok, Slovene: Vesele Bozicne Praznike Srecno Novo Leto or Vesel Bozic in srecno Novo leto, Spanish: Feliz Navidad, Swedish: God Jul and (Och) Ett Gott Nytt År, Tagalog: Maligayamg Pasko. Masaganang Bagong Taon, Tami: Nathar Puthu Varuda Valthukkal, Trukeese: (Micronesian) Neekiriisimas annim oo iyer seefe feyiyeech!, Thai: Sawadee Pee Mai or souksan wan Christmas, Turkish: Noeliniz Ve Yeni Yiliniz Kutlu Olsun, Ukrainian: Srozhdestvom Kristovym, Urdu: Naya Saal Mubarak Ho, Vietnamese: Chung Mung Giang Sinh, Welsh: Nadolig Llawen, Yugoslavian: Cestitamo Bozic, Yoruba: E ku odun, e ku iye' ..... Now for Happy New Year in each of those languages .... no, I won't go there .....  Merry Christmas.