In Reply to: festivity? posted by trisha on Monday, 19. September 2005 at 20:45 Bali Time:
As I'm no native english speaker I looked up in the dictionary for the german word "Feierlichkeit" and it said (amongst others) "festivity". The german word is totally neutral, it has neither a positive nor a negative connotation. Sorry, probably I'd better said "ceremony". I'm not looking for a party or something like this on Oct 12th as some of you must obviously think. Didn't want to offend someone with my words.