On Sunday, December 31, 2017 at 5:29:17 PM UTC+13, Gordon wrote:
For all of us here who have the New Year starting 1 January 2018, Happy New Year!
Reciprocated.
The Chinese will be saying this 16 February 2018.
In Mandarin, though, so you'll never know when they're doing it. Creepy, eh?
So really a New Year is nothing more than so many days to come before it
gets old and another New Year comes along.
It's called the passage of time and it keeps happening over and over again without interruption and no one see,s able to stop it. Stranger still, it's also been going on for infinitely longer than anyone can remember. Odd, isn't it?
Meanwhile let us remember those who have moved on. 2016 was a year when it seemed that many well known to one and all moved on.
Moved on? Do you mean they've died? If so, why not say so; after all it's something everyone does, particularly when they stop living.
But may I commend you on not writing "New Year's" since the possessive apostrophe leaves a question mark over some unidentified abstraction that the New year may possess yet, weirdly, whatever that abstraction is is never mentioned.
Seems wholly vacuous and inane to me.
And you?
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