That's nothing short of Chinglish!
'Nice meeting you' is completely wrong and should never be written unless it's a quote. It is obviously a shortened version of 'It was nice meeting you', which is a lazy way to say 'It was nice to meet you'.
'We're having a wonderful silver wedding anniversary party in 3 years' time.'
Yep.....wrong due to the time, but also due to the adjective. If you dropped 'wonderful' then it almost sounds half-passable.
You should know that 'Long time no see' comes from Chinese, and how would you re-phrase 'Me too' without using twice as many words, (or more) ?
The fact is that when we talk, we're lazy. Why use 4 words when one or 2 will suffice?
Even the Chinese do it with their 'Ming Wan' as opposed to 'Ming tian Wan shang'. (Tomorrow night)
You don't even need to look past names - we shorten them all into the lowest number of syllables possible.
There remains a great divide between what is acceptable to say, and what is acceptable to write.
With the advent of text-speke (ie, nice 2 c u m8), things will get much worse as far as grammar is concerned.
But ask yourself this...In a 100 years from now, who will care anyway?
All our WeChat friends will be dead too, lol.
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- Re you raise to the occasion or you rise to the occasion -- Foxy -- 2016-09-07
- Re you raise to the occasion or you rise to the occasion -- Foxy -- 2016-09-07
- Re you raise to the occasion or you rise to the occasion -- Former FT in China -- 2016-09-07
- Re you raise to the occasion or you rise to the occasion -- Foxy -- 2016-09-07
- Re you raise to the occasion or you rise to the occasion -- San Migs -- 2016-09-07
- Re you raise to the occasion or you rise to the occasion -- Former FT in China -- 2016-09-07
- Re you raise to the occasion or you rise to the occasion -- Former FT in China -- 2016-09-06
- Re you raise to the occasion or you rise to the occasion -- Former FT in China -- 2016-09-04
- Re you raise to the occasion or you rise to the occasion -- amused -- 2016-09-05
- Re you raise to the occasion or you rise to the occasion -- Former FT in China -- 2016-09-05
- Re you raise to the occasion or you rise to the occasion -- no a teacher -- 2016-09-05
- Re you raise to the occasion or you rise to the occasion -- Former FT in China -- 2016-09-05
- Re you raise to the occasion or you rise to the occasion -- Guangxi Guy -- 2016-09-05
- Re you raise to the occasion or you rise to the occasion -- amused -- 2016-09-04
- Re you raise to the occasion or you rise to the occasion -- no a teacher -- 2016-09-04
- Re you raise to the occasion or you rise to the occasion -- no a teacher -- 2016-09-04
- Re you raise to the occasion or you rise to the occasion -- amused -- 2016-09-04
- Re you raise to the occasion or you rise to the occasion -- Former FT in China -- 2016-09-03
- Re you raise to the occasion or you rise to the occasion -- Paul Fox -- 2016-09-03
- Re you raise to the occasion or you rise to the occasion -- Paul Fox -- 2016-09-04
- Re you raise to the occasion or you rise to the occasion -- learning English -- 2016-09-04