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I-April Fool's Day; Umlando Noma Ihlaya?

“Yiliphi iholide olithandayo?”

“UKhisimusi!” noma “Usuku lwami lokuzalwa!” noma “Ukubonga!”

Lezi zonke izimpendulo ezivamile engizizwayo futhi mhlawumbe uke wazizwa phakathi kwabangane bakho nomndeni wakho. Kungithathe isikhashana ukuthuthukisa uthando lwangempela ngoSuku Lweziwula luka-April, kodwa ekugcineni ngingakuvuma lokho – Usuku Lweziwula luka-April iholide lami eliyintandokazi.

Ngikhulele ekhaya lapho ukuncokola nobumnandi bekuyingxenye yempilo yethu. Amahlaya kababa omile adluliselwe kimi (ingabe amahlaya afuzo? Mhlawumbe kunjalo), futhi uSuku lwe-April Fools luwusuku lapho kugujwa khona lokho. Amahlaya yigama lomdlalo, futhi ngaphakathi kwesizathu, kungaba usuku lokuzijabulisa (okungukuthi, uma uthanda amahlaya, kunjalo). Usuku luka-April Fools kwakuwusuku lapho umama afika ngalo UDkt. Seuss' Amaqanda Aluhlaza kanye noHamu ekuphileni. Amaqanda aluhlaza? Sazidla ngo-April Fools' Day.

Kodwa uSuku Luka-April Fools lwaqala kanjani? Kukhona ukuqagela okuningi. Engikuthandayo kuhlehlela emuva ku-1582 (1582!) lapho iFrance isuka ekhalendeni likaJulius yaya ekhalendeni likaGregory. Ekhalendeni likaJulius, unyaka omusha ugujwa nge-spring equinox, cishe ngo-Ephreli 1st. Ikhalenda likaGregory yilo esilisebenzisa namuhla, lapho unyaka uqala khona ngo-January 1st. Ababengokugcina ukwazi ngokushintsha basawugubha unyaka omusha ngoMashi/Ephreli futhi bebethathwa njengeziwula zika-April.1

Thatha leyo mvelaphi yokuqala futhi ubheke ukuthi iguquke kanjani namuhla. Namuhla usuku lokuzama ukudlala amahlaya kubangani bakho, imindeni, noma umphakathi wonkana. Kunezibonelo ezingenakubalwa zemigilingwane ye-April Fools' Day engahambanga kahle, kodwa ngithanda ukucabanga ngaleyo ehambe kahle. Kunesikhathi lapho ngakhohlisa umphathi wami ngokuthi ngimbeke phansi njengereferensi yezicelo zomsebenzi, noma ngesinye isikhathi lapho ngiseyingane, umfowethu omdala wafaka upulasitiki esihlalweni sendlu yangasese ukuze simangale sonke uma usebenzisa. indlu yokugezela. Okunye engake ngakwenza ehhovisi kwaba “ukufaka” imishini yokukopisha eyenziwe yasebenza ngezwi.

Ngo-1957, uhlelo lwezindaba lwe-BBC lwabika ukuthi abalimi baseSwitzerland babetshala izitshalo ze-spaghetti. Baze banikezela ngevidiyo. Lapho othile ovela emphakathini ebuza ukuthi bangasikhulisa kanjani nesabo isihlahla se-spaghetti, i-BBC yaphendula “Beka ihlumela le-spaghetti ethini likatamatisi isoso bese uthemba okungcono kakhulu.”2 Futhi ngo-1996, u-Taco Bell wadlala umdlalo wethu wosuku lwe-April Fool kithi sonke ngokukhipha ikhasi eligcwele ememezela ukuthenga kwabo i-Liberty Bell e-Philadelphia, ingxenye yokunciphisa isikweletu sezwe lethu.3 Ezweni lapho kubonakala sengathi yonke into ixhasiwe noma amalungelo okukhangisa athengiwe, I-Taco Liberty Bell uthole ukunakwa kwabezindaba kanye nemiklomelo eminingi yokusungula nokukholeka.

Ngakho, ngalolu suku luka-April Fool, ulugubha kanjani?

 

Imithombo:

 

  1. https://www.history.com/topics/holidays/april-fools-day
  2. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/03/30/why-celebrate-april-fools-day/99827018/
  3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taco_Liberty_Bell