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Monday, April 29, 2013

Why plural days and nights in Spanish greetings?

Japanese greetings are declarative, not wishful. "Ohayu Goizamas" e.g. means "It is Morning", and so on. Very practical, and it avoids the need to wish people well when one really wants them to rot in hell.

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Source:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4589

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