How do you respond to "Thank you" and "sorry"? How do you respond to "Thank you"/"Sorry"? Maybe "No problem"/ "You are welcome" /"Not at all"/ "My pleasure" /"Don't mention it" for "thank you"? "That'

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Kailin

How do you respond to "Thank you" and "sorry"? How do you respond to "Thank you"/"Sorry"? Maybe "No problem"/ "You are welcome" /"Not at all"/ "My pleasure" /"Don't mention it" for "thank you"? "That's okay/Don't worry about it"/"No worries"/or again "No problem" for "sorry" ? What are the nuances between different responses? Under what context would you use them? I think about this question because of two real life cases: 1. I worked as a TA for a course, and assisted in uploading reading materials etc., students constantly say “thank you” to me, but I am tired of always replying "no problem", I think I need a variety of word choices, but I was wondering whether "you are welcome" may appear too formal,and "don't mention it" may be rarely used. 2. Someone stepped on me and said "sorry" to me, I replied "no..." because I forgot how to respond to "sorry" in English. haha. Thank you!

22 sept. 2016 06:33

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All of your answers are fine. If you get sick of being thanked all the time during your course and having to reply verbally, you could always simply smile at your student. 'You are welcome,' would sound a bit formal but much less so if you contract it to 'you're welcome.'

22 septembre 2016

'Sure' is a good response in this case as well, for an American anyway. There's no reason for 'you're welcome' in this very informal situation.

22 septembre 2016

On our 'side of the pond,' we never use "sure," in that way. As a one word response,, we only use it in order to respond positively to a question "Would you like to go for a drink later?" "Sure."

23 septembre 2016

It's certainly an interesting conundrum sometimes i can imagine! Normally to respond to 'thank you', formally I would respond saying "You're welcome", or "You're most welcome". Other ones I do use are "It's a pleasure" or "Anytime". Your responses to "Sorry" are perfectly fine. "No worries", "No problem" , "it's alright/okay" if you really not that offended haha.

22 septembre 2016

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