Re: "Language Creation" graphic up
From: | Tristan McLeay <zsau@...> |
Date: | Sunday, November 30, 2003, 9:23 |
On Sun, 30 Nov 2003, Andreas Johansson wrote:
> Quoting "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>:
>
> > On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 01:09:01AM +0100, Andreas Johansson wrote:
> > > I was trying to find an unambiguous way of expressing my gratitude, but
> > > failing that, I wrote this instead!
> >
> > The usual unambiguous way of expressing gratitude is "thank you".
> > You should give it a try; it works very well.
>
> There's that little matter of intonation ...
Actually, 'thankyou' is pretty reliable. Variations on it such as 'thanks'
or 'thankyou very much' are less so, though. I would agree with Mark in
this case.
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Tristan