Long time, no see. Where have you been?

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00I would write it without the comma: 'Long time no see'. It is very informal and colloquial, but I saw that many persons used it while chatting 010id1

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01cite10Francesca12cite10Hey Jackson 15012br
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10I would write it without the comma: 'Long time no see'. It is very informal and colloquial, but I saw that many persons used it while chatting 12br
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10Hi Francesca,02br
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00Thanks a lot fo

0 They are fine. No errors (apart from the comma).0-

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01cite10Feebs1112cite11b11font10They are fine12font12b10. No errors (apart from the comma).12br
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10Hi Feebs,02br
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00You have used ''01i00they02i00'' where I would have used ''01i00it0

0 You see a period: think new sentence. 0-

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01cite10Marius Hancu12cite10You see a period: think new sentence. 12br
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10Why? It's against the definition of sentence. There is no subject in 01i00Long time no see02i00.0-

0 Well, 01b00you02b00 put the period, not me. If you put the period, you thought of it as a sentence. It's automatic. Choose one or the other. 0-

0Hi Marius,02br
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00What would you call such a structure as 01i00Long time no see02i00? A sentence, phrase or neither?0-

0 Neither, it's an idiomatic greeting. 01i00It has been a long time since I have seen you. 02i00You can think of it the same way you would "Hello" or "Nice to see you." Neither of those have subjects either, but they function all on their own. 0-

0It's idiomatic.02br
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00It sounds Chinglish, for it's the literal tranlation of "hao3 jiu3 bu2 jian4". But it isn't, according to a teacher of ours.0-