Gray cat 525 Posted 4 years ago
Grammar

How to say more correctly?

How to say correctly :

1. Diary-stranger

Or

Stranger diary

Or2. Strange diary

Strange in meaning, like someone unknown. I wanted to use it in the context of someone writing "Dear Diary", but I wanted to change "Dear" to "Stranger" and want to know how to say it in English./data/user/0/com.samsung.android.app.notes/files/clipdata/clipdata_bodytext_220418_022652_331.sdocx->

  

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gray cat 525 I wanted to use it in the context of someone writing "Dear Diary", but I wanted to change "Dear" to "Stranger" and want to know how to say it in English. I'm going to say you can't. "Dear X" is a salutation formula that is easily destroyed by using some other word in place of "dear".

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gray cat 525I wanted to use it in the context of someone writing "Dear Diary", but I wanted to change "Dear" to "Stranger" and want to know how to say it in English.

I'm going to say you can't. "Dear X" is a salutation formula that is easily destroyed by using some other word in place of "dear". You can get away with similar words, like "sweet" or "darling"