Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Italian term or phrase:
bon noel
English translation:
happy Christmas/merry Christmas
Italian term
bon noel
| 4 +2 | happy Christmas/merry Christmas |
Gad Kohenov
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| Anche a te Jim! |
texjax DDS PhD
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Dec 31, 2014 05:20: Gad Kohenov Created KOG entry
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happy Christmas/merry Christmas
Probably someone translated literally from Italian into French, making a mistake in the process. Italian is Buon Natale and Buon is bon in French.
Maybe that's the kind of French they speak in the Valle d'Aosta :)
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Note added at 19 hrs (2014-12-25 15:48:43 GMT)
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http://www.answers.com/Q/What_does_Bon_Noel_mean
Besides French is one of the offciail languages in the Republic of Seychelles.
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Note added at 19 hrs (2014-12-25 15:51:16 GMT)
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Is bon noel equivalent to joyeux noel?
yes, bon Noël and joyeux Noël are very resembling in meaning. Maybe joyeux is a more lively term.
http://www.answers.com/Q/Is_Bon_Noel_or_Joyeux_Noel_the_corr...
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Langue(s)
Les Seychelles ont trois langues officielles (selon l'article 4 de la constitution) :
le créole seychellois, langue courante à base lexicale française et langue maternelle de 95 % de la population et parlée par 97 %4 de la population. On dit qu'il tient sa base du créole mascarin et est très proche du créole mauricien ;
l'anglais, langue du colonisateur pendant plus d'un siècle et demi, il est parlé par 60 %4 de la population et est principalement utilisé dans l'administration et les affaires ;
le français, parlé par 30 %4 de la population, est utilisé principalement dans la presse écrite, l'affichage commercial et la pratique religieuse du dimanche.
From Wikipedia. Your text must be in creole seychellois. And it is hardly surpriging someone uses it at this time of year!
Mon madam i seselwa
I will be surprised if this is not supposed to be ma madam i seselwa. Since creole in this case is based on French.
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Les Seychelles ont trois langues officielles (selon l'article 4 de la constitution) etc. As I quoted from Wikipedia, has its base in the Mascarin creole and is close to the Mauritian creole.
| I am not in France Gad and that is not French. |
| Then you must be surprised Gad. My wife assures me (and it was something I learnt a long time ago) that "ma madame" is French, "mon madam" is Creole. In Creole you can say "mon pe koze" I am speaking, because the language has present, past and conditional progressive tenses, which are totally lacking in French unless you consider "etre en train de" (can't find the circumfled on my keyboard) a tense. |
| Seychelles has three official languages, French, English and Seychelles Creole. |
| @Phil Merry Xmas |
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Shabelula
: I recently found a politically correct interpretation for the day: Natal tov, or Christmas tov (קר'שתמס טוב). Rejouissez des vacances!
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philgoddard
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Degree + PhD in Dentistry, ATA-Certified
Native in: Italian 
Works in: English to Italian, Italian to English, Italian
Anche a te Jim!
Tanti cari auguri a tutti i colleghi!
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P.L.F. Persio
: tantissimi auguri a tutti!!!
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Tanti auguri P!
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