[ExI] Impending Newtonmass...

Stefano Vaj stefano.vaj at gmail.com
Wed Dec 24 14:48:22 UTC 2008


On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 3:40 AM, Filipe Sobreira
<warlordbcm1 at yahoo.com.br> wrote:
> Maybe, but it DOES mean "Merry Christmas" in spanish.

Come on. Were do you find the word "Christ" in it?

"Navidad" obviously comes from the Latin for "nativity", and nothing
but contemporary antonomasia suggests of whom. Ones should not confuse
meaning with usage.

-- 
Stefano Vaj



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