Since a few days back, I see all these sort of salutations which really! What do they have to do with grammar, and post related to teaching?

Seems like the page has  been taken over by muslims and members of the middle east etc--with all this greetings and stuff every day!
Shouldn �t ALL this go to the caffe?????? I wonder!

so don �t take it so personal.. we are muslims and it is El Eid so we are happy and would be even happier if you share us this occassion!!!!

i think to say happy new year to a jewish memeber is more "useful " to me than a grammar tip!!! don �t you think?!

Well, then Mouna mch! you are in the wrong site then...This is not about celebrations around the world but grammar printables.

If I want to know about history and what other members do across the oceans.. I search but not in ESL printables.

And for this reason the cafe was created so that you can share all these things!

Clear???

Hiya Mouna mch! First, i wish you a happy holiday.

Second, no one minds any celebrating around here (on the site), but minds it HERE in the forum which is, according to Victor �s (sensible) rule meant for TEACHING RELATED MATTERS.
The cafe, on the other hand, is meant for celebrating and sharing joy and jokes, sadness and happiness. Now, the cafe may not be a perfect place at the moment (we are still at version 1 of it), but these kinds of wishes and non-teaching-related topics should go there ... It �s a rule which is there for a reason - lack of space - which nearly brought about the closure of the site at one point in the past.

I hope you understand that no one has anything against the Muslims or your celebrations, only posting it here, in the forum. The people who have complained probably mind the recurring birthday wishes in the forum, too - again breaking the rule. Which is not their or my rule, but Victor�s (the owner of the site).

Just as we would expect our students to respect our rules, i  think that Victor would expect us to follow his.

Wish you all well.

@ ohlala - go and take a shower and put out that fire in you

Well, you see Mouna, that �s the problem. If one of us breaks the rule, others follow and use the other �s disobedience as an excuse to be disobedient, too.
The reason why the members who mind breaking the rule are not reacting is because they do not want to fight, because those that they would address would take it personally and would do things out of spite or pride or ... so they just give in and say nothing. But sometimes the frustration grows so much that one snaps - just like ohlala did, and just like i did some time ago - and it �s all because we keep quiet about it and the problem remains.
Why do you think politicians have the last laugh in every single country in the world?? Because we say nothing...

Anyway, i �m off to a birthday party and wish you nothing but better time here.

I will add it here again for other members to know more about our Eid

 

 

It is the holiday that follows the blessed month of Ramadan and falls on the 1st day of Shawwal the 10th month in the Hijra Calender.