[Grammar] I wish you a happy birthday/I am wishing you a happy birthday.

[englishhobby]

1) I wish you a happy birthday.
2) I am wishing you a happy birthday.

Can we say that the second sentence expresses a bit stronger emotion?

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

No.

The strongest way to wish someone a happy birthday is to say: "Happy birthday!"

 

[englishhobby]

Thank you. And could you tell me if there is any difference whatever between the two phrases I have written? (Besides the formal difference in tenses)

 

[Rover_KE]

2 is not colloquial (a native speaker wouldn't say it).