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hi to all you modelers out there just a short message to hope you all have a brill christmas and new year . and i cant wait to see what weird and wonderful model ideas come in the new year .

HAPPY CHRISTMAS , HAPPY HOLIDAYS & HAVE A BRILL NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL

see you all soon

stu

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if you really wamt to make me happy this Christ mass you take the X out and put Christ back in :)

Thank you.

Merry Christmas everyone!

Happy Hanukkah all!

Happy Holidays!

B)

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hi to all you modelers out there just a short message to hope you all have a brill christmas and new year . and i cant wait to see what weird and wonderful model ideas come in the new year .

HAPPY CHRISTMAS , HAPPY HOLIDAYS & HAVE A BRILL NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL

see you all soon

stu

Hey, Stu ...

So what is 'brill'? How does that translate to the colonists' English?

(And, thanks again for ditching the 'X'.)

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Have A Politically Correct Winter Solstace Holiday.

^_^

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My you have A Merry Christmas . May your holidays travels be Safe and may no one drive out infront of you like the guy I hit yesterday!

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I also wish everyone a happy everything during this season.

One thing I'd like to mention, that I learned during Bible studies many decades ago...that is, that "X" in this use is the Greek letter "chi," which stands for Christ.

"Xmas" is a common abbreviation of the word "Christmas". It is sometimes pronounced /ˈɛksməs/, but it, and variants such as "Xtemass", originated as handwriting abbreviations for the typical pronunciation /ˈkrɪsməs/. The "-mas" part is from the Latin-derived Old English word for "Mass",[1] while the "X" comes from the Greek letter Chi, which is the first letter of the Greek word Χριστός, translated as "Christ".[2]

There is a common misconception that the word Xmas is a secular attempt to remove the religious tradition from Christmas[3] by taking the "Christ" out of "Christmas".

It's also interesting to read about the use of the "chi" in the ichthus fish symbol, and the meaning of "IXOUS" as code among early Christians during their persecution.

http://www.abideinchrist.com/selah/sep4.html

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Thank you, professor Jordan! :P

Now everyone can feel better about using "Xmas" in their tweets to keep the character count down.

Edited by sjordan2
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interesting as that may be Skip...our everyday conversation isnt in latin, greek or aramaic...its in plain old english (or our feeble attempts at such) and in english we call the anointed one "christ" (yes i am aware that i seem to be contradicting myself)

my point being, i like seeing Christ in Christmass

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interesting as that may be Skip...our everyday conversation isnt in latin, greek or aramaic...its in plain old english (or our feeble attempts at such) and in english we call the anointed one "christ" (yes i am aware that i seem to be contradicting myself)

my point being, i like seeing Christ in Christmass

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Nothing wrong with that. Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night.

Posted

Hey, Stu ...

So what is 'brill'? How does that translate to the colonists' English?

(And, thanks again for ditching the 'X'.)

brill is short for brilliant

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and "very cool" in this setting translates to a white Christmass, just like the ones i used to know

If you're from Wisconsin, the white Christmases you used to know aren't too far in the past. :P

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