Comments on: Merry Christmas v. Happy Holidays: Richert Edition http://www.adamsweb.us/blog/merry-christmas-v-happy-holidays-richert-edition/ Fighting a never ending battle... Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:04:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Adam Graham http://www.adamsweb.us/blog/merry-christmas-v-happy-holidays-richert-edition/comment-page-1/#comment-34436 Adam Graham Fri, 30 Nov 2007 23:13:05 +0000 http://www.adamsweb.us/blog/merry-christmas-v-happy-holidays-richert-edition/#comment-34436 Actually what you're practicing is Newspeak, where you're trying to redefine PC as not being PC. You're right that Happy Holidays used to mean, "Merry Christmas and Happy New Years", now it means, "Happy Whatever." And gay used to mean "very happy." Times change and so does the meaning of words. What makes the phrase so pernicious in many cases it's foisted on people and saying "Merry Christmas" becomes a federal case. Actually what you’re practicing is Newspeak, where you’re trying to redefine PC as not being PC. You’re right that Happy Holidays used to mean, “Merry Christmas and Happy New Years”, now it means, “Happy Whatever.” And gay used to mean “very happy.” Times change and so does the meaning of words. What makes the phrase so pernicious in many cases it’s foisted on people and saying “Merry Christmas” becomes a federal case.

]]> By: Joan E. Harman http://www.adamsweb.us/blog/merry-christmas-v-happy-holidays-richert-edition/comment-page-1/#comment-34407 Joan E. Harman Fri, 30 Nov 2007 20:39:44 +0000 http://www.adamsweb.us/blog/merry-christmas-v-happy-holidays-richert-edition/#comment-34407 Happy Holidays is a phrase that has been in existence since I was a teenager. I am 53 now so we are talking about 40 years in which Happy Holidays has been advertised in one venue or another. Political correctness however, has only been a buzzword since the 1990s. So, I have to wonder at the age of the person blogging here. Never could understand why Happy Holidays would cause anyone heartburn in the first place. Used to be that it covered the holidays of Christmas and New Years. But since this is a religiously diverse country, Holidays now cover any religious holiday whether Christian, non-Christian, pagan/or neo pagan, Jewish and Muslim specifically. Is the heartburn over Happy Holidays today in reality the heartburn over the fact that religious diversity exists in this country? That may be the REAL PC. Happy Holidays is a phrase that has been in existence since I was a teenager. I am 53 now so we are talking about 40 years in which Happy Holidays has been advertised in one venue or another. Political correctness however, has only been a buzzword since the 1990s. So, I have to wonder at the age of the person blogging here.

Never could understand why Happy Holidays would cause anyone heartburn in the first place. Used to be that it covered the holidays of Christmas and New Years. But since this is a religiously diverse country, Holidays now cover any religious holiday whether Christian, non-Christian, pagan/or neo pagan, Jewish and Muslim specifically. Is the heartburn over Happy Holidays today in reality the heartburn over the fact that religious diversity exists in this country?

That may be the REAL PC.

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