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In Reply to: Re: Around here it's "merry Xmas!" :-) posted by Joseph on December 25, 2005 at 19:10:48:
Quite funny those Americans ; ) I don't know whether I would like to see my son seen being reduced to Mixael or the French would like their
Mixel...plus Greek chi isn't equivalent in pronounciation to Latin X, rather resembling the
xi...pronounced ks....so you have this mixture of
Greek-symbol/"letter"...read by the normal people as Latin X....the result being, that anyone with some rememberance of early algebra knows, that x is a common variable...or worse as a picture means: to cross something out...
In other words, even if you could trace all that historically...someone starting early with that
nonsense (would we like our names to be reduced, my question???)...the big question is, what result has it in the mind...in some dictatorships you couldn't mention the name either without repercussions...
Reminds me of what I read recently in the newspaper about the seasonsgreeting of Walmart vs. Donahue...and also the Whitehousegreetingcard.Was quite informative.
