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...kinds of slick magic: it saves the speaker from accountability, establishes (wink-wink) an intimacy with the listener that only a shared and special secret can provide, even wields rhetorical power over space, time and motion. Science cores would do well to study this phenomenon. The phrase?: Happy Belated Birthday...
...Birthday: The main noun of the phrase. A compound word, made of two nouns, the first of which, "birth" serves as more an adjective, describing the more nounly "day," indicating the day on which someone was birthed...
Then there's Belated. Here is where the real trouble starts. Belated, obviously another form of late, means "too late," "tardy." So this word set in the between Happy and Birthday transforms the phrase into a too late, finding your skate key, bubble of glee, day on which someone was birthed...
...this is wrong, all wrong. Correctly stated the phrase should run "Happy Birthday, Belatedly" or "I'm belated in wishing you Happy Birthday" or "It is an instance of belatedness in which I wish you Happy Birthday." Or "This wish for a happy day of birth is given unto you belatedly as I am slack, trifling forgetful, not a true friend...
After reading the resident of the room his legal rights, Middleton and the police officer interrogated the resident about the hiring. Since it was meant to be a birthday surprise, the student "had no clue," and referred the men to the source's room, she said...