Thank you for calling -> Thank you?

[W Brewer]

<Thank you for talking to me.> = self-effacing <Good-bye, have a nice day.>
WB:  As a student at Berkeley, I was struck by an expression that Yakov
Malkiel used, after chatting with an audience member after a class or
conference lecture:  <<Thank you for talking to me.>> He said that his
Russian sounded to some like Tolstoy and his English like Dickens.
RE: <<Thank you for calling -> Thank you?>>

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