Happy Year of the Rooster

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BarkellWH

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Joined: Jul. 12 2009
From: Washington, DC

Happy Year of the Rooster

To our Chinese colleagues, "Gong Xi Fa Cai!" And to our Vietnamese colleagues Happy New Year! Unfortunately, I do not speak Vietnamese, and even if I did, the key board does not have the many diacritical marks necessary to write Romanized Vietnamese. May the Year of the Rooster be a good one for everyone.

Cheers,

Bill

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jan. 27 2017 20:30:23

Leñador

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Joined: Jun. 8 2012
From: Los Angeles

RE: Happy Year of the Rooster (in reply to BarkellWH)

In Vietnam it's Tet, but the E has some crazy squiggles.
Happy Tet to all, tomorrow we party!!

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jan. 27 2017 22:49:15

estebanana

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RE: Happy Year of the Rooster (in reply to BarkellWH)

This morning I had toasted mochi in shrimp broth soup- ebi dashi mochi. The dish that is eaten on new years day in Kagoshima. I missed new years here so Yuko's dad asked me if I wanted to have it. We got up early and made it. Now I wonder why I don't eat that every morning.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jan. 28 2017 6:10:40

BarkellWH

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Joined: Jul. 12 2009
From: Washington, DC

RE: Happy Year of the Rooster (in reply to Leñador)

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In Vietnam it's Tet, but the E has some crazy squiggles.

It is indeed Tet, but never having learned Vietnamese, I was wondering how one wishes someone "Happy New Year" in Vietnamese. I found out today. My Barber is Vietnamese, and I went in for a shave this morning. In honor of Tet, he was wearing a very nice pinstriped suit and was going to celebrate with family later. He wrote out "Happy New Year" for me, which, in Vietnamese, is "Chuc Mung Nam Moi." I omitted all the diacritical marks, as my key board doesn't have them.

His barber shop is located in a Vietnamese center called Eden Center, and it has about 20 different Vietnamese restaurants, a couple of super markets, and many jewelry shops and travel agencies. Marta and I have been going to Eden Center since it opened when we want good Vietnamese food, whether full dinners, ban mi, or pho. It is all superb.

So, to all Mandarin speakers: Gong Xi Fa Cai.
To all Cantonese speakers: Kong Hee Fatt Choy.
And to all Vietnamese speakers: Chuc Mung Nam Moi.

May the Year of the Rooster grace everyone with prosperity and interesting times.

Bill

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And the end of the fight is a tombstone white,
With the name of the late deceased,
And the epitaph drear, "A fool lies here,
Who tried to hustle the East."

--Rudyard Kipling

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jan. 28 2017 17:50:23

Estevan

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Joined: Dec. 20 2006
From: Torontolucía

RE: Happy Year of the Rooster (in reply to BarkellWH)

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and interesting times

It's doing that already. As Joseph Chamberlain said in 1898:

"I think that you will all agree that we are living in most interesting times. I never remember myself a time in which our history was so full, in which day by day brought us new objects of interest, and, let me say also, new objects for anxiety."

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jan. 30 2017 16:24:04