During a few winter weeks, our conversations are filled with short-lived greeting phrases.
There can be ambiguities when you start greeting Merry Christmas and when you stop.
- According to old custom, you can start saying Merry Christmas as early as the first Advent.
But I think you should say it in the days before Christmas Eve and stop when it has passed, Stina Wickhoff.
The middle days are the time when these greetings can feel like a jungle.
Stina Vickhoff believes that you don't need to bother with it.
- "Good continuation" works very well, she says.
When it comes to wishing someone a happy new year, you can think in a similar way as before Christmas Eve.
However, the New Year's greeting has a slightly longer shelf life.
- Let it go for a few days.
Until the thirteenth day at its height.
Most of the greeting phrases are seen as harmless, but she still wants to raise a finger of warning for one of them.
- Maybe you shouldn't say goodbye to someone who is very ill.
Good end to what?
she asks herself.
Hear more in the video above.