Thank you for having me (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Dan Goncharoff]

You mean, if I hold the door for someone, and they say "Thank you",
and I say "You're welcome", I am saying they are welcome to having the
door held open?

I doubt it.

DanG

On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Environment has/ had nothing to do with it.
>
> "You're welcome!" means you're welcome to whatever it is you've just thanked
> me for. In other words, "No thanks are necessary!"
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> Of course, Inglish speakers may well be thinking that "welcome" means only
> what it says on a doormat and have been avoiding the polite expression
> largely for that reason.
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> By 2026, it'll be a hearty "Whatev!"
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> JL
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> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Aren't you bothered by the lack of relevance of "you're welcome" to
>> the notion of being thanked? If someone is thanking me for something I
>> did, my first thought shouldn't be to tell that person, possibly
>> falsely, that they I am happy for them to be in my immediate
>> environment, should it?
>>
>> Like "no problem", it's just a convention, and one without direct meaning.
>>
>> DanG
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>> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
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>> > I was always taught that "you're welcome" is the gracious way to say
>> > "you're welcome".  But this is less bothersome to me than being told "no
>> > problem" when telling someone "thank you."
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>> >> There is nothing "smarmy" about this phrase. It is a gracious way so
>> >> say "you're welcome."
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>> >> >I'd like to nominate "Thank you for having me"
>> >> >for smarmy expression of the year.
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