Name days

[ianek70]

Do you celebrate name days?
Nobody in Upper Silesia does, but they're marked in all the calendars, and on
the display panels on buses it flashes up the date and then "Dzisiaj imieniny
obchodzą Tibor, Horacy i Judasz".
I recently discovered I've got 14 name days every year, so should I get a
cake or something?

[ejmarkow]

ianek70 napisał:

> Do you celebrate name days?

In fact I do! Ever since I came to Poland, I've been celebrating my name days
because some of my neighbors and friends here always remind me of it. They
usually break out a bottle of wódka or beers.

Eugene

[marcus_anglikiem]

as far as i remember, the one (of your 14) you celebrate is the one which comes
first after your birthday

[kylie1]

why not celebrate all 14? that's 14 bottles of vodka and even more beer!

[firemouse]

Sure I do. This is part of the culture, right? Even if not, I simply like it.

[nasza_maggie]

just a another excuse to party

[ianek70]

nasza_maggie napisała:

> just a another excuse to party

Well, if people need an excuse...
But here folk are too proud of their tradition of not celebrating it.

[varsovian]

Yes but, truth be told, my name is David ... and when I was still teaching in
England I used to buy daffs on the first of March to celebrate St David's.
Here there is no Dawidy on that date ...
Who are these dumb calendar writers?

[ms.jones]

Yes, there is imieniny Dawida on the 1st of March, I've found it here in a
respectable source:

kalendarz.pwn.pl/dzien.php?y=2006&m=3&d=1
so you can celebrate your nameday on the right day

[kylie1]

so have two Daves on this forum now.
Cool!

[usenetposts]

kylie1 napisała:

> so have two Daves on this forum now.
> Cool!
>


I knew about that some time ago, but I thought it was up to him to reveal his
secret, he said smugly.

[femine79]

> But here folk are too proud of their tradition of not celebrating it.

hi, I"m from upper silesia and and I don't know anybody celebrating name days,
my mum told me it's connected with communism times when was tendency to replace
birthday by nameday, so it's not a case of being too proud but being against
regime. my parents come from different parts of Poland: Mazowsze and Kaszuby
and there are not nameday celebration either. no, in my region is one important
name day: santa Barbara, 4th Dec.

[ql]

Communism or not. It's anyway a good opportunity to have a party.
I celebrate both my birthday and name day.
Re my name day, I had also a great choice of name days. I have chosen the
most "patriotic" one in November.
Guess what's my name?

[usenetposts]

ql napisał:

> Communism or not. It's anyway a good opportunity to have a party.
> I celebrate both my birthday and name day.
> Re my name day, I had also a great choice of name days. I have chosen the
> most "patriotic" one in November.
> Guess what's my name?

Emil.

[ianek70]

ql napisał:

> Re my name day, I had also a great choice of name days. I have chosen the
> most "patriotic" one in November.
> Guess what's my name?

Mieczysław?
Adolf?
Sławomir?
Mirosław?
Helga?
Henry, the mild-mannered janitor?
Rumpelstiltskin?

[minimus]

Lech
Jarosław
if neither then perhaps Andrzej, Kaziu, Romek.
Zyta?????? Nah

[nasza_maggie]

It's mine today))))))))))

[usenetposts]

Happy Name Day to Nasza Maggie!

[nasza_maggie]

No cake for me.... Maybe a chocolate eclair though))
Or tiramisu.
or
aaaaaaaaaaaa
STOP IT.

[bluteau]

/ˈhæpi neɪmz deɪ/

I don't have one

[nasza_maggie]

why?

[bluteau]

Kathleen≠Katherine/Catherine/Katarzyna

[nasza_maggie]

22.03
30.04
25.11


www.calendar.sk/nameday-plplhor.php

[bluteau]

Once again. Pay close attention to the symbol:

Kathleen ≠ Katherine/Catherine/Katarzyna