http://www.englishforums.com/English/EslGeneralEnglishGrammar-Questions/Forum12.htmAsk your questions on grammar and get your sentence checked. We answer lots of different types of general English grammar questions here. <font color=red>DO NOT post paragraphs and compositions here. Post them in our <a href="http://www.englishforums.com/English/EssayReportCompositionWriting/Forum9.htm"><b>Essay, Report and Composition Writing Forum</b></a>.</font>enXMOD (Build: 3614.32638)http://www.englishforums.com/English/LongTimeNoSee/jmvrd/post.htm#811888Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:48:05 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:811888AlpheccaStars0http://www.englishforums.com/English/LongTimeNoSee/jmvrd/post.htm#811888http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-811888.xmlAfter a bit of Googling, it seems like the origin is one of two Pidgin English dialects: Chinese/English and Native American/English. It sounds credible to me. Many Chinese workers immigrated to the US in the mid 1800&#39;s to work on the first transcontinental railroad. Pidins developed as a result, and some of the common expressions became set phrases. At the same time, Native Americans developed a pidgin, too. Some of the pidgin language was (fallaciously?) mimicked in the Lone Ranger and Tarzan TV series and early talkies - Western, Tarzan, Charlie Chan and other films, and so entered the mainstream.http://www.englishforums.com/English/LongTimeNoSee/jmvrd/post.htm#811818Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:46:57 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:811818Philip1http://www.englishforums.com/English/LongTimeNoSee/jmvrd/post.htm#811818http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-811818.xmlIt can&#39;t be parsed in a traditional sense, but it is certainly common enough to be considered &quot;standard&quot;, at least in the US.http://www.englishforums.com/English/LongTimeNoSee/jmvrd/post.htm#811816Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:43:43 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:811816Yoong Liat2http://www.englishforums.com/English/LongTimeNoSee/jmvrd/post.htm#811816http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-811816.xmlI don&#39;t think it is standard English.http://www.englishforums.com/English/LongTimeNoSee/jmvrd/post.htmWed, 08 Jul 2009 18:49:57 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:811804haydude_403http://www.englishforums.com/English/LongTimeNoSee/jmvrd/post.htmhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-811804.xmlmany times i&#39;ve heard this sentence &quot;long time, no see &quot; but still i am doubtful whether it is correct or not.