BIRTHDAY BASHING

Now, what was it I was going to say to my partner, DAVID, today...?

Er... let me see...

Gelukkige verjaarsdag!
Gëzuar ditëlindjen!
Melkame yetewlede kene! Melekam ledet!
Eeid milad sa'aeed
Shenorhavor Dzenentyan Or!
¡Bon nataliegu!
Ad Gününüz mübaræk!
Zorionak!
Shuvo Zanmo din!
Sretan Rodjendan!
Deiz ha Bloaz Laouen!
Chestit Rojden Den!
Saang yat faai lok!
Feliç aniversari!
Neh dzeeneh kk-eh nehbah soo ghwah nehs-then
Pennbloedh Lowen!
Kontan ou pa-w jou nesans!
Sretan rodyendan!
S^t^astné narozeniny!
Né fo dO!góó dááré yááné !
Tillykke med fødselsdagen!
Gefeliciteerd!
Palju õnne sünnipäevaks!
Dio natana beatea!
Ta'va'lo'dat Mo'ba'rak
Hyvää syntymäpäivää!
Joyeux anniversaire!
Fan herten lokwinske mei dyn jierdei!
Feliz Aniversário!
Gilotsavt dabadebis dghes!
Alles Gute zum Geburtstag!
Janmadin ni vadhaaee!
Hau`oli lá hánau!
Yom huledet same'ach!
Janmadina mubaarak ho
Sen-jít khoài-lók
Boldog születésnapot!
Til hamingju með afmælið!
Felica nasko-dio!
Selamat ulang tahun!
Felice anniversario!
Breith lá sona duit
Buon compleanno!
Tanjoubi omedetou!
Seng-il-ul Chuk-ha-ham-ni-da
Beatum Diem Natalem
Daudz laimes dzimsvanas diena!
Sveikinu gimtadienio proga!
Selamat harijadi
Sheng- rì kuài lè!
Jeramon ilo rainin am!
Mitshíngh!
Gratulerer med dagen!
Bon aniversari!
Wszystkiego najlepszego z okazji urodzin!
Feliz Aniversário! Parabéns!
La mult'i ani!
S dnem rozhdeniya!
Srecyan rodyendan!
Ke ho lakaletsa letsatsi le monate la tswalo!
Shubha. Upan Dhina.yak !
Vs^etko najleps^ie (k narodeninám)!
Vse najboljsxe za rojstni dan!
Feliz cumpleaños!
Hongera!
Grattis på födelsedagen!
Maligayang kaarawan!
Sook-san-wan-kert!
Ogole!
Do-gum günün kutlu olsun!
Z dnem urodyn! z dnem narodzhenya!
Chúc mùng sinh nhâ.t!
Penblwydd Hapus i chwi!
Imini yokuzalwa emnandi!
Mazl-tov
Sikufisela inhlanhla elangeni lakho lokuzalwa

Oh, yes, I remember...

Happy Birthday!

I suppose some might think that two appearances on the Sibley blog in one week is a bit excessive, but I think that's quite a good birthday present...

Plus, as an extra gift (admittedly shared with all my other readers whether it's your birthday or not), here's a few random thoughts on birthdays...

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
- Jean Paul Richter

There is still no cure for the common birthday.
- John Glenn

Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people
who have the most live the longest.
- Larry Lorenzoni

The best birthdays of all are those that haven't arrived yet.
- Robert Orben

And rather less philosophically...

Why is a birthday cake the only food you can blow on and spit on
and everybody rushes to get a piece?
- Bobby Kelton

In case you wondered, the greetings above (from A to Z) are in...

Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Asturian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Bengali, Bosnian, Breton, Bulgarian, Cantonese, Catalan, Chipewyan, Cornish, Creole, Croatian, Czech, Dagaare, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Eurish, Farsi, Finnish, French, Frisian, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi, Holooe, Hungarian, Icelandic, Ido, Indonesian, Interlingua, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malaysian, Mandarin, Marshallese, Mazahua, Norwegian, Occitan, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Sesotho, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Tswana, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Welsh, Xhosa, Yiddish and Zulu

Incidentally, in Esperanto, it's Feli^can datrevenon! Feli^can naski^gtago! No wonder it never caught on: it's longer than German and you more or less have to say it twice!