A Mistake On A Birthday Cake Box
Yesterday was my daughter's birthday. I bought a birthday cake. There are some blessing word on the box of the cake, "Roses, sweet and fragrant, on this special day for you. Hope your birthday blossoms into lots of dreams come true!" While my daughter read it, I think mybe there is a mistake in this sentence. It should be "Hope your bithday blossoms into lots of dreams AND come true!", they missed a AND there. Am I right?
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A Mistake On A Birthday Cake Box
Yesterday was my daughter's birthday. I bought a birthday cake. There are some blessing words on the box of the cake (or cake box), "Roses, sweet and fragrant, on this special day for you. Hope your birthday blossoms into lots of dreams come true!" While my daughter read it, I thought think maybe there was is a mistake in this sentence. It should be "Hope your bithday blossoms into lots of dreams AND come true!", they missed an AND there. Am I right?
(I commented on this already above, but because it is poetry and a saying "dream come true" it is correct as is. but if you want to put an "and" in there it would be better to include something like "Hope your birthday blossoms into lots of dreams AND MAY THEY come true.)
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Yep...I think it is intended to be a sort of poem. I will say this, there is some pretty funny Chinglish in China, but this isn't it.
I hope your daughter enjoyed her birthday!!
生日快乐!!
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Poetry is given a lot more leeway and this is basically poetry so it doesn’t have to be 100% logical. But “a dream come true” is a common idiom saying meaning your hopes and desires (dreams) have been fulfilled. Blossom in this context would mean the act or process of fulfilling the dream.
But if it were me, I’d have written something more like the following “Roses, sweet and fragrant just for you. May your birthday wish blossom into a dream come true!”
What do you think?
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No, sorry you are not right. What they wrote was correct, no mistake!
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