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说"Happy Christmas"是否正确？ 作者:Meliza 时间:2006-12-12 1:01:00
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  • Dear all, there's a little thing I met which puzzled me a long time. Post it here, Maybe you can help me. Thanks a lot in advance!

    Question: When we send wishes to friends, we often say," Merry Chiristmas! ". Is the expression "Happy Christmas!" OK? Can we say like this? I have checked it on the internet, and haven't had clear answer. 

    In fact it came across to me when I saw some Christmas special wishes on http://www.jxue.com/zt/06zt/ChristmasWish/, Is this kind of words OK? Wish you give me your idea. Thanks again.

    • 作者:yoyoling 时间:2006-12-23 15:22:00
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  • 见到贺卡上有写"Have a happy Christimas"的，（此卡是Made in Australia)，但还没有见到"happy Christmas"
    • 作者:lemon 时间:2006-12-23 18:22:00
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  • 很多英语用法都是语言习惯的问题，既然native speaker不这么说，我们就没有理由自己造出来。
    • 作者:ikarus 时间:2006-12-25 18:06:00
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  • I have heard the questions before when I studied in High School.

    My English teacher told us that merry and happy have slight diference here. Merry means a short period of happiness while happy means a relatively long term. Thus it is the reason why we say merry Christmas while happy new year , since  Christmas is only one day but a new year lasts for about 365 days.

    Here's the same question raised in Yahoo! Answers which you can refer to:

    http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20061207080727AAC2kyr

    • 作者:mycoolife 时间:2006-12-27 0:02:00
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  • 支持你，长知识了！
    • 作者:avivainsyd 时间:2007-1-7 1:41:00
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  • 对的。澳洲很多人都跟你说happy christmas
    • 作者:Ange_Eyre 时间:2007-4-5 22:37:00
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  • 没问题的，我一直听到人家说的
    • 作者:winniethepool 时间:2007-5-6 22:02:00
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  • 通常都说merry christamas 但happy christmas 也没问题 没必要太较真
    • 作者:cnmb1002 时间:2007-5-10 23:25:00
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  • 固定搭配和语言习惯问题，如同汉语中的“可以”也可以说成“行”“中”“成”等等，习惯而已，没有正确与不正确。从入乡随俗的角度讲，MERRY好一些。
    • 作者:eternal 时间:2007-7-5 0:13:00
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  • It's not a native expression. I hope you don't say like that! ok?

    [em04]
    • 作者:tonyxudingol 时间:2007-8-2 22:04:00
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  • ikarus' answer makes sense.

    No grammatical mistake with "Happy Christmas", however, it is strange.

    Just use "Merry Christmas"

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