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bon noel

English translation: happy Christmas/merry Christmas

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Italian term or phrase:bon noel
English translation:happy Christmas/merry Christmas
Entered by: Gad Kohenov

20:32 Dec 24, 2014
Italian to English translations [PRO]
Religion / Enigmatically well wishing
Italian term or phrase: bon noel
Il contesto è festivo
James (Jim) Davis
Seychelles
Local time: 14:49
happy Christmas/merry Christmas
Explanation:
happy Christmas is joyeux Noël in French. I never heard bon Noël in French. And I speak French since day 1.

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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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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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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Note added at 1 day18 hrs (2014-12-26 15:20:02 GMT)
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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.
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Gad Kohenov
Israel
Local time: 13:49
Grading comment
Bonne Annee
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +2happy Christmas/merry Christmas
Gad Kohenov
Summary of reference entries provided
Anche a te Jim!
texjax DDS PhD

Discussion entries: 2





  

Answers


9 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
happy Christmas/merry Christmas


Explanation:
happy Christmas is joyeux Noël in French. I never heard bon Noël in French. And I speak French since day 1.

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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Note added at 19 hrs (2014-12-25 16:05:11 GMT)
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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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Note added at 1 day18 hrs (2014-12-26 15:20:02 GMT)
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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.


Gad Kohenov
Israel
Local time: 13:49
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench, Native in HebrewHebrew
PRO pts in category: 16
Grading comment
Bonne Annee
Notes to answerer
Asker: I am not in France Gad and that is not French.

Asker: 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.

Asker: Seychelles has three official languages, French, English and Seychelles Creole.

Asker: @Phil Merry Xmas


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Shabelula: I recently found a politically correct interpretation for the day: Natal tov, or Christmas tov (קר'שתמס טוב). Rejouissez des vacances!
1 hr
  -> ! חג מולד שמח
agree  philgoddard: I love this answer.
1 day 13 hrs
  -> Thanks a lot!
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Reference comments


1 hr peer agreement (net): +1
Reference: Anche a te Jim!

Reference information:
http://www.noradsanta.org/?utm_source=Bing Promo Email&utm_m...

Tanti cari auguri a tutti i colleghi!

texjax DDS PhD
Native speaker of: Native in ItalianItalian
PRO pts in category: 8
Note to reference poster
Asker: Tanti auguri


Peer comments on this reference comment (and responses from the reference poster)
agree  P.L.F. Persio: tantissimi auguri a tutti!!!
10 hrs
  -> Tanti auguri P!
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