That's a greeting from a reader named Stefan Larm that came in this morning—"Happy New Year" in Swedish.
In any language you prefer, god bless and keep you and yours in 2012. May you have a great year.
Mike
Featured Comment by Yrjo Maenpaa: "Hyvää uutta vuotta! (In Finnish)."
Featured Comment by SamPieter: "Gelukkig nieuwjaar! (Dutch)."
Featured Comment by Gary O'Callaghan: "Athbhliain faoi mhaise duit (Irish)."
Featured Comment by Nadan F: "Sretna Nova godina (from Croatia)."
Featured Comment by odaiwai: "Sam Ling Fai Lo! (In Cantonese)."
Featured Comment by Neil Youngson: "Feliz Año Nuevo! That's Spanish, coming to you from Mexico. Keep up the good work in 2012. Saludos."
Featured Comment by Alex Vesey: "Akemashite omedeto gozaimasu (Japanese for Happy New Years). Not sure if this will show, but 明けましてお目出度うございます. Best wishes to all for 2012."
Featured Comment by Wolfgang Lonien: "Frohes neues Jahr! (German)."
Featured Comment by Dawid Ciechanowicz: "Wszystkiego Najlepszego w Nowym Roku! (from Poland)."
Featured Comment by almostinfamous: "नया साल मुबारक हो (Naya saaal mubaarak ho) or नयी साल की शुभ कामनाएं (Nayee Saal ki Shubhkamnayein) in Hindi :-) ."
Featured Comment by Akrivopolenov: "С Новым Годом! (Russian). Thanks, you run a great blog!"
Featured Comment by CF Salicath: "Godt nytt år! (In Norwegian)."
Featured Comment by Kostas: "Χρόνια Πολλά και Ευτυχισμένο το 2012! (Greek)."
Featured Comment by Bernd Margotte: "Ä guets neus (Swiss German)."
Featured Comment by Andrei P: "La Multi Ani! in Romanian."
Featured Comment by JohnMFlores: "Oh yeah? Well happy New Year to you too! (New Jersey)."
Featured Comment by riccardo_mn: "'Auguri di felice anno nuovo' or, less formally, 'Buon anno!' from Italy."
Featured Comment by jean-louis salvignol: "Bonne et heureuse année 2012 pour tous les participants à TOP, et même pour les photographes actifs (mais y en a-t-il?)."
Added by CMS: Sorry, I cannot resist. Here is the translation of the above for those who are not in command of French: "A Happy New Year 2012 to all those taking part in this blog, even to those who are active photographers (but are there any?)." Nice touch of humour. Happy New Year!
Mike replies: No one in here but coffee addicts and iPhone converts....
Featured Comment by Paulo Bizarro: "Feliz Ano Novo! (Portuguese)."
Featured Comment by Philip Storry: "Already? Oh well...(British English)."
Featured Comment by Alex Nanou: "(Arabic) كل عام و أنتم بخير "
Featured Comment by Anupun Sra-ium: "สวัสดีปีใหม่ Sawaddee Pee Mai (in Thai). All the best to you and Z(X)ander."
Featured Comment by Adam Isler: "שנה טובה (Hebrew)."
Featured Comment by Mike Plews: "Godt Nytår! Courtesy of Mrs. Plews, who is half Danish."
Featured Comment by Tim Beccue: "新年快乐! (Chinese)."
Featured Comment by Scott Saltman: "Hau'oli makahiki hou ( from Hawaii)."
Featured Comment by Martin Quiazon: "Maligayang bagong taon! (Filipino)."
Featured Comment by Erik: "Chúc mừng năm mới from my wife who's Vietnamese...."
Featured Comment by david: "Честита нова година! (Bulgarian)."
Featured Comment by jamin: "Selamat tahun baru (in Indonesian/Melayu)."
Featured Comment by Hans-Olav Andersen: "Gleðilegt nýtt ár! (Icelandic) Really enjoy TOP every day!"
Featured Comment by K: "Yeni yılın mutlu olsun! (in Turkish)."
Featured Comment by Sten A.: "Head uut aastat! (in Estonian)."
Featured Comment by Boglev: "Среќна нова година! Mike, Happy New Year, in Macedonian. All the best."
Featured Comment by Dharmaraj Jeevamani: "Puthaandu Vaalthukkal (Happy New Year in Tamil), புத்தாண்டு வாழ்த்துக்கள்."
Featured Comment by Vladimir: "'Stastny Novy rok' to all in Czech."
Featured Comment by Adam Szedlak: "Boldog új évet! (Hungarian.) And thanks for the insights, stories and photos!"
Featured Comment by David Vatovec: "Srečno novo leto! (Slovenian)."
Featured Comment by Tyler Westcott: "Happy New Year! Bonne Année! (Canadian)."
Featured Comment by Xurxo: "Feliz Aninovo! (Galician)."
Featured Comment by Ben Rosengart: "Bon any nou. (Catalan, courtesy of my wife, Suzanne Scala, who has a scholarly interest in the language.)"
Featured Comment by Grba: "Срећна нова година! (in Serbian)."
Well, god fortsättning, to continue with my mother tongue.
Posted by: Stefan Larsson | Sunday, 01 January 2012 at 06:15 PM
Thanks Mike, all the Best to you and your family in 2012.
Posted by: Dick Glaser | Sunday, 01 January 2012 at 06:20 PM
John,
Wouldn't that be "youse"?
:-)
Mike
Posted by: Mike Johnston | Sunday, 01 January 2012 at 11:48 PM
あけましておめでとう。(Japanese, "Akemashite Omedetou")
Posted by: mike | Monday, 02 January 2012 at 01:26 AM
I am surprise I see no French so far... Bonne année!!
Posted by: Xavier How-Choong | Monday, 02 January 2012 at 06:29 AM
Buon anno e auguri.
Posted by: John Brewton | Monday, 02 January 2012 at 08:02 AM
Je te souhaite une Bonne année Mike,
à toi et à ceux que tu aimes. ( In french but you knew that)
Posted by: Yves | Monday, 02 January 2012 at 08:05 AM
"Bonne et Heureuse Année"... (in French)
Posted by: Jacques | Monday, 02 January 2012 at 11:34 AM
Happy New Year! As a native of the emerald isle I'd offer up Gaelic but I don't know any beyond a few choice utterances which would likely get me into a bar brawl.
Top tip: if wishing someone "Happy New Year" in Spanish, never, EVER forget that there's a tilde over the "n" in "Año". Without it the meaning is *ahem* somewhat different.
Posted by: Paul Glover | Monday, 02 January 2012 at 12:06 PM
Gelukkig Nieuwjaar, Happy New Year in Dutch.
P.S. Thanks for a great blog.
Posted by: Frank | Monday, 02 January 2012 at 12:37 PM
Bonne et heureuse année (French)
Posted by: Tregix | Monday, 02 January 2012 at 12:59 PM
Wow!! What a great set of comments!
Posted by: Fred | Monday, 02 January 2012 at 07:44 PM