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Originally Posted by Decimus
English phrase: 'Long time no see'.
It defies all conventional grammatical rules.
(Okay, most, but still.)
May be ultimately derived from broken English, such as Native American Pidgin English or Chinese Pidgin English. |
No, it is just ordinary slang, or lazy speech, for "It's been a long time since I(we) have seen you(each other)." It defies the grammatical rules because it is not technically a sentence, nor proper English. But it is very commonly used. So when written it is usually separated by a semicolon, or completely separated into the approximation of two independent sentences.