“Good morning” is a term of welcome. “Good Night,” when said at night, is a term of leaving. You’d never say “good night” to someone who shows up at 11 pm for a party. Nor would you say good morning to someone leaving your house. Have a good morning, sure, or have a good day. Good Day is another term used while leaving. Then there’s Good Evening, which is the Good Morning of the night.
TL;DR Anon’s flame dashboard said good night, and he’s overcaffeinated and underslept and noted some wierd shit going on with wishing people Good [timeofday]
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It’s all about tense (past, present, future) and the idioms which leave out those implied verbs that indicate tense. You can still wish someone a good night as a form of greeting, but you’ll need to use those “extra” words to avoid the idiomatic expression. Saying good evening is just the common shortened idiomatic form.
“Good Evening” however CAN be a phrase of welcoming.
Good night?
Usually I say “good night” as “hello” and “have a good night” as “goodbye”
Buenos noches works both ways
It’s just the quirkyness of the English language
Good day can be either
In french we have different forms, basically good day (bonjour) for greeting and Have a good day (bonne journée) for leaving. Same for good evening. Good night is only ever said when you are pretty sure someone is going to bed soon I think, I wouldn’t say it to someone off to do a night shift.
I mean night and day are whole ass parts of the day, so saying Good Those is saying “I hope you have a good whole ass part of the day”. Morning and Evening are just the starts of those periods, so saying Good Those is more like “Let’s have a good part of the day together”. Or maybe I’m just high.
