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ChinsonTan Posted 18 years ago
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Help, Native Englishg Speakers Needed

0When I was a kid, my old English text book told me that we could response to "Thank You" with "Not At All", which means you are welcome. But when I answer two of my American friends with this phrase" NOT AT ALL" when they thanked me , in different times of course, they didn't quite know what I was talking about. After I told them everything about this phrase, they told me that that phrase could be used only when you don't accept someone's thank, that means you reject their thank unpolitely.02br
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00But in today's dictionary or some place, as well from Chinese friends' mouth, I could sometimes still get that phrase as "YOU ARE WELCOME". 02br
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00How do you know about that, friends. Could you help me with that? 02br
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00A lot of thanks to you guys.0-
  

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0 I think this is primarily a British expression. As I understand it, it means something like "no trouble at all" and is normally taken to mean "you're welcome".0-
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0Tell them it's a far nicer version of "No problem." (A pet peeve of mine. I really dislike it intensely when I say "thank you" to a waiter or someone behind the counter of a store and get "no problem" in return.")02br
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00My pleasure. // It was my pleasure.02br
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00Happy to do it. // I'm glad I was a
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0Thanks man. I got it. Now I know someother answers of thank you. The only thing I don't quite understand is why my two friends don't know that sentence.0-
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0 or you can say >>>>Don't mention it. 0-
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0 As a native I dislike people saying man... Thanks would do just fine. About your friends, if they are native speakers and don't know the expressions then it's a possiblility they come from a different state and might not use them. All natives don't have to know every expression! Do you know every expression in your language? 0-
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