Thursday, February 2, 2017
"Do Make It a Good Day"
There's a department at Kaiser Permanente which leaves a phone message to remind you of an upcoming appointment. The nurse always ends with the same few words:
"Do make it a good day."
That stops/me/in/my/tracks/. How different from just "Have a good day."
Both sentences are imperative with an implied "you" as the subject, but "Have a good day" rings for me as "(I hope you experience) a good day." "Make," however, with its auxiliary verb "do," creates a special message and emphasis:
"Oops! This "good day" is up to me? I can cause it to happen?? Indeed, that's the only way it will???"
That message helps me turn my day in a better direction, and I don't see how it wouldn't for anybody.
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