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Q: How many people have you come across who thinks Valentine's Day is a festival?
In China...
all of 'em. The word "Festival" is really overused here.
I think that they don't really know the word "holiday." Chinese holidays are more festival-ish, I guess.
The same reason so many of them call beer "wine": the most commonly used bilingual dictionaries are crap and reinforce the same Chinglish from Urumqi to Fuzhou.
The funny one for me it April Fools or "The Foolls if April Festival". What is even worse, they wish me a happy one!
Jnusb416:
Yes, I've had quite a few students mention that. I had to tell them that it's not a holiday, just something kids like to do to each other. And they think Easter is only about the Easter bunny. Again, I had to tell them that's just for the kids.
I love the way at Christmas, Santa's name is 'Christmas old man' 
