Grüß Gott! (Page 1 of 2)

Yeah, I too usually say nothing at all, especially since I heard that the origin of this ritual is the superstition that one's soul could be pushed out of the body when you sneeze^^. I was merely interested if what I heard about people in America saying "Gesundheit" is actually true. Well, now at least I know that people in the Netherlands say it. Which reminds me of something I wanted to ask a Dutchman, flying or not, anyway: How do you call your country? Because in Austria, people usually call it either "Holland" or "Niederlande", but as I understand it "Holland" is only a part of the whole Netherlands, am I correct?

Ah, didn't update the page so I didn't see your post. Thank you very much for your answer. So are those two phrases the most common, or is there something else between " (God) Bless you" and "Gesundheit" when ranked according to popularity, except not saying anything?

To everyone else: If you say "Gesundheit" in your country too, please tell me^^

That reminds me of how a teacher of mine used to answer to sneezes. He said "Zreißn soids di in lauter Hunderter" which you might translate to "May you explode into a shower of hundred euro bills"^^

People outside of the Holland region (which consists of two provinces if I'm not mistaken) don't like it when you refer to the whole country as Holland, as you can imagine. It would be like calling Germany Baden-Württemberg or Austria Tirol.

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I usually say "¡salud!", probably due to the high number of unregistered Hispanic workers in my area.

afaik, this is nonsense. at least i've never heard anyone object to the country being called 'Holland'.
ah, historic accuracy: thanks to my wife i now know that the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands was founded in 1665, and at that point the country changed to 'The Netherlands'. the idea that only two provinces (South-Holland and North-Holland) are still what is called 'Holland' is something of the past. the term 'Holland' has become synonymous with the term 'The Netherlands' over time. we have songs for sports-contests in which we sing 'Holland' because it is easier to fit into a metrum, but a Dutchman will commonly refer to his/her country as 'The Netherlands' (or, in Dutch, 'Nederland'). so both are essentially interchangeable now.

well i must say that i live in South-Holland so i might just not know the right people.
the Friesians are a typical type of Dutchmen. they apparently have a history where they were in constant conflict with surrounding states etc, and some of them are currently still after becoming independent. so they might view this whole thing a bit different.

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