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Wishing someone a good "slide" into the New Year

In German: "Einen guten Rutsch ins neue Jahr"

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sparty

Dec 20 2007, 2:04 pm

I noticed that a lot of people wish each other a happy new year by saying "Einen guten Rutsch ins neue Jahr". A Rutsch is translated to a fall, slide, or a landslide... So that means you "slide" into the new year...?

JerseyBoy

Dec 20 2007, 2:07 pm

Well, given the condition of most people on New Year's Eve, do you think they'll be walking???

cypher

Dec 20 2007, 2:16 pm

yeah?

bmessmann

Dec 20 2007, 2:25 pm

QUOTE (sparty @ Dec 20 2007, 2:04 pm)

So that means you "slide" into the new year...?

Sounds good, but not really. The possible origins of the expression are discussed here ---> Guten Rutsch

sarabyrd

Dec 20 2007, 3:06 pm

I have always heard the version linked to, that it's from Rosh ha-Shana. Schocks the hell out of the Germans when you tell them that their traditional greeting is Hebrew, even my ex hadn't known.

miwild

Dec 20 2007, 8:51 pm

QUOTE (sarabyrd @ Dec 20 2007, 3:06 pm)

... Schocks the hell out of the Germans when you tell them that their traditional greeting is Hebrew ...

Doesn´t schock me at all ... Masematte (spoken in my hometown Münster) is just one of a number of German Rotwelsch sociolects with a considerable vocabulary of Hebrew/Yiddish origin

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