"You are welcome" + Rule of Three (1819)

[Duane Campbell]

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>
> How about "No problem!" which has pretty much replaced it among under-40s
> ?


I had a German friend whose English was minimal, at best, but that didn't
prevent him from using it, sometimes incomprehensibly. If you said, Thank
you, he would reply, "Shut up."  What he meant was, "Don't mention it," but
how he got from there to "Shut up" I never did figure out.

D