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Foxy - 2016-09-07
In response to Re you raise to the occasion or you rise to the occasion (Former FT in China)

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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you raise to the occasion or you rise to the occasion -- learning English -- 2016-09-03
Re you raise to the occasion or you rise to the occasion -- learning English -- 2016-09-04
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 -- 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 -- Guangxi Guy -- 2016-09-05
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 -- Paul Fox -- 2016-09-05
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 -- Foxy -- 2016-09-06
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 -- San Migs -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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
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