tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9396860.post110374726568872968..comments2024-03-28T08:41:17.341-04:00Comments on <center> Ralph the Sacred River </center>: Happy Birthday, XEdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05188482189638751204noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9396860.post-1103754472603964572004-12-22T17:27:00.000-05:002004-12-22T17:27:00.000-05:00Ed, in no way should you take my comments as direc...Ed, in no way should you take my comments as directed at you! Nay! They were of the general notion to which you so eloquently give voice. I just don't think folk are informed enough or sophisticated enough to even know what a Greek letter looks like (unless they happen to be a drunken frat boy who pledged a fraternity and knows only the three letters of that fraternity- but I digress...).Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16698562143972216357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9396860.post-1103751784711755892004-12-22T16:43:00.000-05:002004-12-22T16:43:00.000-05:00I have heard this explanation before and honestly ...I have heard this explanation before and honestly think it assumes more than it can bear. First, X is not the Greek letter Chi. X = xi in Greek and hence in English it would have to be ximas- which it of course is not. Second, and more importantly, is the simple fact that the massa perditionis have no idea that the Greek letter Chi looks like an English x. In fact, that massa perditionis doesn't know alpha from omega. Hence the supposition that learned folk (hah! - America gets dumber by the day) walking around malls at Christmas see X-Mas and know it is somehow a (mis)- reference to Christ is misplaced and a bit absurd.Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16698562143972216357noreply@blogger.com