Merry War on Xmas
by Bijan Parsia
“Merry war on Xmas” is my new season’s greeting. I love it.
However, this morning it occured to me that two classic “general” season’s greeting phrase, “Happy Holidays” and “Season’s Greetings” had a rather amusing logical structure.
Happy Holidays = For all x, if x is a holiday, then (may) x be happy for you.Season’s Greetings = For all x, if x is a greetingOfTheSeason, then I greet you with x
I’m not really happy with the quantification of “Season’s Greetings”. I suspect it might be substitutional rather than objectual. I.e., that instead of committing me to a domain with all the greetings in it, it might only commit me to saying all the greetings. In other words, “Season’s Greetings” is more like a macro.
(Ok, Zoe thought it was funny! What’s wrong with the rest of you!)
(No tagline for this one…it was stolen by the Christmas Ninjas. “Make lots of money through stealth in shadow.” should be the new motto of this company.)