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Do these sound natural in English?

 
 
Reply Wed 22 Jan, 2014 08:47 am


To all my lovable friends:

Keep tough, keep cool, keep passion and more merry in the happy new year!

Thank you for your cheering up in 2013 and all my best wishes in 2014!

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I think "Thank you for your cheering up in 2013 and all my best wishes in 2014! " should be split into two:

Thank you for your cheering up in 2013
All my best wishes in 2014!

Or else, it is ungrammatical.

Do you agree with me?

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Setanta
 
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Reply Wed 22 Jan, 2014 09:51 am
It's not well written, but i don't know that it's ungrammatical. Yes, that sort of tripe sounds all too natural on the part of English speakers.
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Reply Wed 22 Jan, 2014 01:15 pm
@oristarA,
The first seems slightly ungrammatical, maybe s/b "and be more merry." The purist might require a comma after "passion"

The second I think ok grammatically but it seems also needing a comma to prevent misreading as "thank you for all my best wishes"
oristarA
 
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Reply Wed 22 Jan, 2014 09:05 pm
@dalehileman,
Dale's making progress.
-Thumbs up-
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Reply Thu 23 Jan, 2014 12:07 pm
@oristarA,
Quote:
Dale's making progress.
Ori I work on it every day
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