What does that mean...?

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  • butterfli7o
    butterfli7o Posts: 1,319 Member
    Most people like to use Xmas when they don't believe in Christ. It's just to take the Christ out of Christmas...sad really.

    :noway: :huh:
  • n0ob
    n0ob Posts: 2,390 Member
    Sorry, just my answer. I started becasue of my soon to be Ex mother-in-law, then it becasue fun.

    I was just messing...this site cuts into my ability to be an equal opportunity hater sometimes...
  • WendyTerry420
    WendyTerry420 Posts: 13,274 Member
    I do it to piss of christians.

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  • DavPul
    DavPul Posts: 61,406 Member
    I always thought X= criss or cross (since an X is crisscrossed) so:

    School X-ing (cross)
    Ped X-ing (cross)
    X-tina (criss)
    X-mas (criss)
    Obviously in the pronunciation of criss or cross, not the spelling.

    It has always made sense to me that way, not that I really have anything to base it on.

    And Kriss Cross will make you JUMP

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    well chit. i was actually going to post a pic of them in response to that post, but you haz beaten me to itz.

    well played
  • WendyTerry420
    WendyTerry420 Posts: 13,274 Member
    I always thought X= criss or cross (since an X is crisscrossed) so:

    School X-ing (cross)
    Ped X-ing (cross)
    X-tina (criss)
    X-mas (criss)
    Obviously in the pronunciation of criss or cross, not the spelling.

    It has always made sense to me that way, not that I really have anything to base it on.

    And Kriss Cross will make you JUMP

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    well chit. i was actually going to post a pic of them in response to that post, but you haz beaten me to itz.

    well played

    Better luck next round, but thanks for playing! :smokin:

    ETA: The bad part is that I will now have that song in my head.
  • Chief_Rocka
    Chief_Rocka Posts: 4,710 Member
    There's a war on Christmas. You people really need to watch more Fox News.
  • lovelyrose11
    lovelyrose11 Posts: 609 Member
    X is Latin(I believe) for Christ. Hence Xmas.

    ^ This..it's just shorthand.
  • mmccloskey10
    mmccloskey10 Posts: 16
    Yes I'm serious, not joking at all.... but umm, it seems like I woke up one day and people say or write Xmas instead of Christmas and XTina instead o Christina. Why is that?

    (I guess I've been under a rock or something... I HONESTLY do not know when this change took place.)

    The letter "X" in greek means Chi which comes from a greek word that means Christ.
  • Valera0466
    Valera0466 Posts: 319 Member
    I am 46 and this has been around since I was a kid. Just shorthand. No big deal. Merry Christmas everyone and if you are offended, well, I really don't care!
  • WendyTerry420
    WendyTerry420 Posts: 13,274 Member
    There's a war on Christmas. You people really need to watch more Fox News.


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  • divagabrielle
    divagabrielle Posts: 5
    I'd always heard about taking the "Christ" out of Christmas too, but I like your thinking *much* better!
    However, I am lazy, so I have been using "C-mas" - to keep the "Christ" in it. Just like I have lazy friends who will occasionally call me "G" or "Gabby"
    Ijs...
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    I'd always heard about taking the "Christ" out of Christmas too, but I like your thinking *much* better!
    However, I am lazy, so I have been using "C-mas" - to keep the "Christ" in it. Just like I have lazy friends who will occasionally call me "G" or "Gabby"
    Ijs...
    Usin X instead of C would actually be the better way, since the X, since 2,000 years ago, actually does MEAN "Christ." "C" does not.
  • DonM46
    DonM46 Posts: 771 Member
    My late parents would sing this song every year at church.

    Don't wish me Merry Xmas
    Or Happy Holiday,
    Put Christ back into Christmas
    On this blessed holy day

    Put Christ back into Christmas
    Like on that silent night
    When the star of Bethlehem
    Gave way to new born life.

    Let all the world give glory
    To Christ the King of Kings
    Let children hear the story
    Of love our Saviour brings.
  • yoovie
    yoovie Posts: 17,121 Member
    Its for those of us that want to celebrate the season and the holiday the way it was before they put Jesus Christ in it - but still call it what everyone else in the modern world calls it. Plus its quicker to write. Its just easier for non-religious people :)
  • tashjs21
    tashjs21 Posts: 4,584 Member
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    Seriously, Christ was not the "reason for the season" in the beginning.

    But saying Xmas is not a war on Christ either.

    I wish people would put as much effort into positive things as they do spreading false things. :angry:
  • tashjs21
    tashjs21 Posts: 4,584 Member
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  • penrbrown
    penrbrown Posts: 2,685 Member
    Oh no, please, no religious arguments, that was NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT my intention of asking this... I PROMISE... KEEP THE PEACE EVERY ONE, KEEEP..THE...PEACE...


    :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou:

    BACK PEDAL BACK PEDAL BACK PEDAL!!!!
  • WickedGarden
    WickedGarden Posts: 944 Member
    I don't believe in religion.

    so i just say "Happy Holidays"
  • nbhobbes
    nbhobbes Posts: 284
    Most people like to use Xmas when they don't believe in Christ. It's just to take the Christ out of Christmas...sad really. As for the name with the X I don't see that a lot.


    You don't know much about the history of the religion in which you believe, do you?

    Most of them don't... It's pretty ironic.
  • yoovie
    yoovie Posts: 17,121 Member
    funny thread is funny
  • workoutjunky1
    workoutjunky1 Posts: 177 Member
    Def the beib
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