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Re: Happy New Year HN

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Post by grawprog »

treis wrote: post #73

Man, fuck 2020. I picked up 2 bottles of Champagne for the wife and I before I decided it was a 3 bottle kind of year. It's 5:30 and we're one bottle in so clearly the right decision. Here's to 2021 being a lot better for everyone!

I'm four beers in and it's only 3pm here. It's been that kinda year. Had to stock up before they stop selling liquor at 8pm.

Cheers!!!!

Happy Near Year HN. Hopefully next year sucks less!!!

Re: Happy New Year HN

#84

Post by cambalache »

StavrosK wrote: post #78
cambalache wrote: post #57

¡Feliz Año Nuevo! Sometimes this site can be quite irritating but I always return because there is a big subset of very nice people here.

I'm so glad you included the tilde over the n.

It's funny because Spanish is my native language and I rarely use the _eñe_ (for us is a whole different letter, not just n+tilde, although is basically the palatalized n. From the always trusty Wikipedia: "Unlike many other letters that use diacritic marks (such as Ü in Catalan, Spanish and German and Ç in Catalan, French and Portuguese), Ñ in Spanish, Galician, Basque, Asturian, Leonese, Guarani and Filipino is considered a letter in its own right, has its own name (in Spanish: eñe), and its own place in the alphabet (after N). Historically it came from a doubled N. Its alphabetical independence is similar to the Germanic W, which came from a doubled V. "), my keyboard is in English and I haven't bothered to use the international option for Windows (I know it exists but the first time I tried I didnt succeed and didnt want to waste more time). I just use 'nh' _a la_ Portuguese but from time to time some native Spanish speaker gives me grief because of that, so now I resort to copy/paste when writing an online text that is going to be read by several people.Lame, I know.

Re: Happy New Year HN

#87

Post by StavrosK »

cambalache wrote: post #84
StavrosK wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm so glad you included the tilde over the n.

It's funny because Spanish is my native language and I rarely use the _eñe_ (for us is a whole different letter, not just n+tilde, although is basically the palatalized n. From the always trusty Wikipedia: "Unlike many other letters that use diacritic marks (such as Ü in Catalan, Spanish and German and Ç in Catalan, French and Portuguese), Ñ in Spanish, Galician, Basque, Asturian, Leonese, Guarani and Filipino is con…

Jaja, a mi me gustó. Y era una broma, no te preocupes :)

Re: Happy New Year HN

#89

Post by cambalache »

StavrosK wrote: post #87
cambalache wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's funny because Spanish is my native language and I rarely use the _eñe_ (for us is a whole different letter, not just n+tilde, although is basically the palatalized n. From the always trusty Wikipedia: "Unlike many other letters that use diacritic marks (such as Ü in Catalan, Spanish and German and Ç in Catalan, French and Portuguese), Ñ in Spanish, Galician, Basque, Asturian, Leonese, Guarani and Filipino is con…

Jaja, a mi me gustó. Y era una broma, no te preocupes :)

Si, así lo tomé. Un abrazo!

Re: Happy New Year HN

#90

Post by mfbx9da4 »

treis wrote: post #73

Man, fuck 2020. I picked up 2 bottles of Champagne for the wife and I before I decided it was a 3 bottle kind of year. It's 5:30 and we're one bottle in so clearly the right decision. Here's to 2021 being a lot better for everyone!

Such an HN comment... You found an accurate way to look at something negatively.
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