Seems to habe an interesting history and background:
Cimbrian language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cimbrian (German: Zimbrisch or Tzimbrisch) refers to any of several local Upper German dialects spoken in northeastern Italy. The speakers of the language are known as Zimbern.
Do you speak it?
There's also Mocheno, a slightly archaic version of Bavarian, that has more speakers, and Ladin, a completely different language spoken a bit further north. It's supposed to be related to Rhaeto-Romansh, but I've never been able to figure out if that just refers to the origin, or whether they are really mutually comprehensible,
Hope you have an enjoyable Holiday.
Do you still have snow? Here all has vanished.
Scotland is being buried in snow at the moment tho'. keep to the Fen Causeway
And to you, Schöni Wiehnacht und es guets Neus! *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
Saw them at WOMAD last year and it was one of those really great things where you could see word of mouth making a vibe. They played 3 times, the first time for about 100 of the more curious who were blown away and spread the word, the second time for a very packed 500 and so they they were moved to one of the big stages for their final performance. In my mind they stole the show that year. keep to the Fen Causeway
In katakana. Translated into roman characters, that would come out as something like "Merii Kurisumasu."
Japan acknowledges Christmas, largely (I suspect) due to Disneyland (in fact, one of the most vital and sacred cultural centers in the country) Christmas Pageants that have built awareness of the foreign holiday year after year since the 1960's.
However, here it's largely an excuse for occasional christmas decorations, sales of fried chicken (Kentucky Fried Chicken is another Christmas promoter), sales of "Christmas Cakes" (no idea where they got that idea), young and female retail empolyees being forced to wear cute Santa costumes, and romantic dates. Christmas is mostly celebrated as a romantic holiday for couples. New Years serves in the "traditional family gathering holiday" role here.
It seems in VietNam christmas is similar. With less US-culture commercialisation as large US brands are still quite rare. Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères
