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Hrsanei Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary
Response to thank you
Hi.
I can think of 5 common phrases in response to thank you, I have listed them below,
I would be grateful if you could tell the difference between them. Any comments are highly appreciated.
Can you think of a situation in which one of them fits and the other not.?
Thank you
1. you are welcome
2. No problem/ not a problem
3. sure
4. Any time
5. you bet
And I also heard of the combination of them a lot
1. Sure, no problem
2. Sure, any time
3. No problem, any time
I can think of 5 common phrases in response to thank you, I have listed them below,
I would be grateful if you could tell the difference between them. Any comments are highly appreciated.
Can you think of a situation in which one of them fits and the other not.?
Thank you
1. you are welcome
2. No problem/ not a problem
3. sure
4. Any time
5. you bet
And I also heard of the combination of them a lot
1. Sure, no problem
2. Sure, any time
3. No problem, any time
Top answer
Hi, All of these are pretty casual. Some are also more common in certain regions. 'You're welcome' is probably the highest register.
- Hi, All of these are pretty casual.
- Some are also more common in certain regions.
- 'You're welcome' is probably the highest register.
- Some people find 'No problem' rather irritating.
- eg The waiter brings my meal.
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Hi,
All of these are pretty casual. Some are also more common in certain regions. 'You're welcome' is probably the highest register.
Some people find 'No problem' rather irritating.
eg
The waiter bring
All of these are pretty casual. Some are also more common in certain regions. 'You're welcome' is probably the highest register.
Some people find 'No problem' rather irritating.
eg
The waiter bring
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Sure thing.
My pleasure.
"You bet" is probably not appropriate unless you're in the Midwest of the US. It strikes me as a regionalism.
"You're welcome" is the most universal and most used.
Glancing through your list, I'd say that each fits as well as any other in the list simply from the point of view of being a response to "Thank you".
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Sure thing.
My pleasure.
"You bet" is probably not appropriate unless you're in the Midwest of the US. It strikes me as a regionalism.
"You're welcome" is the most universal and most used.
Glancing through your list, I'd say that each fits as well as any other in the list simply from the point of view of being a response to "Thank you".
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Hi Clive.
I really like your comment. I have never been comfortable with no probelm.
But as for the difference, I kind of thought of a situation in which one of the responses do not fit.
When I am walking in a street, and a total stranger asks me the time, and when I tell him the time, in response to his thanks, I have the impression that if I say anytime, it doesn'
I really like your comment. I have never been comfortable with no probelm.
But as for the difference, I kind of thought of a situation in which one of the responses do not fit.
When I am walking in a street, and a total stranger asks me the time, and when I tell him the time, in response to his thanks, I have the impression that if I say anytime, it doesn'
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Hi,
Yes, it does seem odd when you think abut it, but most of these expressions are just treated as pretty meaningless words, really.
In such a case, I'd just say nothing in response to 'Thanks'.
Clive
Yes, it does seem odd when you think abut it, but most of these expressions are just treated as pretty meaningless words, really.
In such a case, I'd just say nothing in response to 'Thanks'.
Clive
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Thank you Jim for your comment and input. Thank you as a response to thank you is really interesting.
I live in Wyoming and people use you bet quite often. I think it is used in all mountain states.
Thanks
I live in Wyoming and people use you bet quite often. I think it is used in all mountain states.
Thanks
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CliveThe waiter brings my meal.I agree with this! In my view, "no problem" is fine when the person has actually gone out of their way to do something special for you -- something that might, in fact, have been a problem for them to d
I say 'Thank you'.
He says 'No problem'
Why does he want to assure me that doing his job is not a problem for him?
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khoffIt might be a generational thing, though -- both of my daughters see it as just a stock phrase to be uttered in response to "Thank you" without any annoying connotations at all.I have grave doubts that I'm in the same generation as your daughters, but I feel the same as they do. As far as I'm concerned "No problem" is no problem.
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Clive Many people still feel that the best way to accept thanks is to smile very slightly and say nothing at all. That approach used to be a lot more common.Great response, Clive.
This is still very much the case in France.
As a child, I was conditioned to respond to "thank you" with "you're welcome." I can remember my mother drilling "what do you say
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JohnParisthe only reaction you'll get to a "merci" is a smile, or a nod of the head. And it's not considered being rude at all.Can you speak to "S'il vous plait" as well? What is their attitude toward saying that?
CJ
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S'il vous plait (please) is used much more frequently than "de rien", il n'y a pas de quoi" or " je vous en prie" (all forms of thank you - from the most familiar to the most formal).
There's no shortage of polite "please(s)" or "thank you(s)", it's only "you're welcome" that may strike non-native speakers as odd or missing. We are, in my opinion, conditioned to hear and expect "you're welcome
There's no shortage of polite "please(s)" or "thank you(s)", it's only "you're welcome" that may strike non-native speakers as odd or missing. We are, in my opinion, conditioned to hear and expect "you're welcome
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