In celebration of the new year, I’m closing out 2011 with this comic from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal — one of the only two comics I know that regularly addresses grammar:
Click the image to find out what happens to the professor. I’m a hard-core grammarian myself, but I think even I could resist sending that text under the circumstances.
Many thanks to all of the commenters who have added their interesting and erudite (and usually grammatically correct even in non-native languages!) input to this blog. May 2012 bring more of the same.
Bom Ano Novo! And, as commenter Lilaine suggested, now is the perfect time to learn how it’s said in other languages.
Oregon Expat 
Bonne [nouvelle] Année !
(‘nouvelle’ is implicit, usually)
Et merci à toi pour cet excellent et très enrichissant blog. 🙂
And I here you about the grammatical freaks…! :p
There are several “special”(let’s say that) New Year greetings, in French(I won’t tell for they’re a bit…er…you know?). I hope there are some in every language, ’cause they’re a lot of fun to start the new year… 😀
Gott nytt år!!
(Swedish, literally good new year.)
If anybody wants the audio greetings :
http://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/christmas.htm
Here’s another nice tool for wannabe polyglots:
http://www.acapela-group.com/text-to-speech-interactive-demo.html
And now in the 2nd official Portuguese language (i.e. Mirandês aka Mirandese Language):
Bun Anho Nuobo!
Ahahaha I can’t write a proper English sentence to save my life, but this mistake… I understand the professor 😀
Szczęśliwego Nowego Roku! (in Polish)
Heh, there are many fun things on the subject of grammar on the net.
Frohes neues Jahr!
or
Guten Rutsch!
OK, I’ll follow suit on Maria João’s superb Mirandese greeting and add mine, in one of the Portugal’s non-official “sub-dialects”, in its phonetic and quite colloquial transcription:
Feliz Ano Nuobo, carago!
Voorspoedige nuwe jaar!
Most common is probably: Gelukkig nieuwjaar.
I’ll stick with what I know: Happy New Year!
in Czech: Šťastný Nový rok!
Thank you, Oregon Expat – its brilliant blogger and varied community of commenters, for teaching me so many things this last year.
¡Feliz Año Nuevo!
May 2012 bring joy!