Timeline for What is a generic term for phrases like "Happy New Year", "Happy Mother's Day", "Merry X-mas" etc.?
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| Jul 9, 2021 at 22:32 | comment | added | brilliant | "Not really. The title doesn't prevent you from talking more generally" - You, of course, can talk more generally and leave the scope of things specified in the title and it may not be a problem to you. But that would be misleading for the learners as they will think then that such expressions like "congratulations on your promotion", "congratulations on your success", "congratulations on competing this semester" are also included, and, thus, will automatically start saying something like "congratulations on your birthday!". | |
| Jul 9, 2021 at 22:27 | comment | added | James K | Not really. The title doesn't prevent you from talking more generally. The point in my answer is that this isn't a natural grammatical category.... | |
| Jul 9, 2021 at 22:25 | comment | added | brilliant | The title "How to greet people on their birthday" will limit the scope of greetings to only birthdays and will exclude X-mas, Thanksgiving, Mother's Day, Father's Day and a whole lot of other special occasions. | |
| Jul 9, 2021 at 22:21 | history | edited | James K | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 9, 2021 at 22:15 | history | answered | James K | CC BY-SA 4.0 |