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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font><font> </font></font></span></p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>From: </font><font><span class="gI"><span name="Mike Morgan" class="gD">Mike Morgan</span> <span class="go"><a href="mailto:mwmbombay@gmail.com">mwmbombay@gmail.com</a></span></span></font><font><span><span name="Sandy Fleming"><span><span name="heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk"><span><span></span></span></span><span></span></span></span><span></span></span></font><span><span name="Michael McCartin"><span><span name="M.-L. Lessing"><span><span name="Douglas Hinton"><span><span name="M.-L. Lessing"><span><span name="Douglas Hinton"><span><span name="M.-L. Lessing"><span><span></span></span></span><span></span></span></span><span></span></span></span><span></span></span></span><span></span></span></span><span></span></span></span><span></span></span><font><br>












      Subject: </font><span></span><span><span></span></span><span><span><span></span></span></span><span><span><span></span></span></span><span><span><span><span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span><span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span><span><span class="gI">LL-L "Grammar" 2012.11.12 (01) [EN]</span>
<br></span></span></span></span><br></span><div class="im"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Sandy (and no other) wrote:<br>
> Here's to 2013 when it comes, eh?<br><br></span>

</div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Well, here in Shangri-la day after tomorrow is New Years 1138<br>
(according to Nepal sambat, the third of our official national<br>
calendars, used mostly by Newars, the aboriginal inhabitants of<br>
Kathmandu Valley)<br><br>
So:</span>
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पासापिं! न्यू दँ ११३३ (म्हपुजा)या भिंतुना।  (Nepalbhasa/Newari)</span>
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A Happy New Year 1133 to all Lowland friends!</span>
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And, as it is also Diwali (Dipawali or Teehar here in Nepal), to the</span>
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Hindus among us (and I believe there ARE Hindus among us):<br><br>
शुभ दिपावलीको मंगलमय शुभ-कामना (nepali) | दिवाली मुबारक होआप सव के</span>
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>
(Bhojpuri) | दिवाली की शुभकामनाएं (Hindi) | દિવાલી ની ખૂબ ખૂબ<br>
શુભકામનાઓ (Gujarati) | दिवाळीच्या हार्दिक शुभेच्छा (Marathi) | শুভ<br>
দীপাবলীর প্রীতি ও শুভেচ্ছা (Bangla) | ଦୀପାବଳିର ଅନେକ ଶୁଭେଛ (Udiya) |<br>
ਤੁਹਾਨੂੰ ਦਿਵਾਲੀ ਦੀਆਂ ਬਹੁਤ ਬਹੁਤ ਵਧਾਈਆਂ ਹੋਣ (Panjabi) | ദീപാവലി ആശംസകള്‍<br>
(Malayalam) | தீபாவளி நல்வாழ்த்துகள் (Tamil) | దీపావళి శుభాకా౦క్షలు<br>
(Telugu)<br><br>
Happy Diwali!  (English)</span>
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br><br>
PS, Sandy, as for my use of "slots" rather than "grammatical</span>
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>
position"; please don't blame it on my teachers! It was subversive<br>
literature I read outside of class where I picked that usage up ;-)<br><br>
mwm || *U*C> || mike || माईक || мика || マイク (aka Dr Michael W Morgan)</span>
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>
sign language linguist / linguistic typologist<br>
academic adviser, Nepal Sign Language Training and Research<br>
NDFN, Kathmandu, Nepal<br><br>---------<br><br>From: R. F. Hahn<<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><br>Subject: Celebrations<br><br>And the happiest of New Years to you and yours, too, dear Mike!<br>

<br><font>This, in the northern parts of the Northern Hemisphere less than cheery region of the world</font><font> at this time of the year</font><font>, just screams for encouragement. So I personally respect and welcome all the seasonal light-bringing and light-affirming festivals of the world, such as Diwali (तिहार, etc.), Yule (Jul), Christmas, and Hanukkah (<span title="Hebrew transliteration" class="Unicode" style="white-space:normal;text-decoration:none"><i>Ḥănukkāh</i>, </span><span class="script-hebrew" dir="rtl">חֲנֻכָּה</span>).<br>

<br><font>May ancient and re<font>kindled light brighten <i>your</i> days, dear Lowlanders! <br><br>Regards<br>Reinhard/Ron<br><font>Seattle, USA</font><br></font></font></font></span><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt">







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