1. Gesëende Kersfees - Afrikaans
2. Boas Festas - Portuguese
3. Prejeme Vam Vesele Vanoce a stastny Novy Rok - Czech and Croatian
4. Glaedelig Jul - Danish
5. Hyvää Joulua - Finnish
6. Joyeux Noël - French
7. Fröhliche Weihnachten - German
8. Kala Christouyenna - Greek
9. Mele Kalikimaka - Hawaiian
10. Bada din Mubarak - Hindi
11. Nollaig Shona Dhuit - Irish
12. Buon Natale - Italian
13. Shinnen omedeto - Japanese
14. Kuwa na Krismasi njema - Swahili
15. Sung Tan Chuk Ha - Korean
16. Linksmų Kalėdų - Lithuanian
17. Feliz Navidad - Spanish
18. Natale hilare - Latin
19. Maligayang Pasko - Tagalog
20. Wesołych Świąt Bożego Narodzenia - Polish
21. Feliz Natal, Gajan Kristnaskon - Portuguese, Esperanto
22. S Rozhdestvom Kristovym (С Рождеством Христовым) - Russian
23. Suksun Wan Christmas - Thai
24. Chuc Mung Giang Sinh - Vietnamese
25. Nadolig Llawen - Welsh
Let's start off the new year with an easy one. Here is a classic riddle:
As I was going to St. Ives
I met a man with seven wives
Each wife had seven sacks
Each sack had seven cats
Each cats had seven kits
Kits, cats, sacks and wives
How many were going to St. Ives?
*Note, the first person with the correct answer gets the bonus point.
I will also award a bonus mark for any Christmas/New Year greeting in a language not listed here.
4 comments:
There are two possible answers depending upon the interpretation of the riddle.
1. If the narrator is the only one going to St. Ives, the answer is one.
2. Whereas, the answer is 2802, if the narrator, the man, the man’s wives, the sacks, the cats and the kits are all traveling to St. Ives.
Bonus New Year’s greeting in Gaelic – Bliadhna mhath ur.
One
Thanks for the New Year's greeting!
And "one" is the usual answer to this riddle.
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