December 30, 2010
Please, Thank You, and You're Welcome
Since when did "No Problem" become the stock response for Thank You? I ask you this. If you're my generation or the one ahead, you may have thought this through yourself.
We're at a restaurant last night - whole family - Italian. It's busy. I'm a pretty courteous person, so I proffer a lot of "thank you" mentions to our waitress as she keeps us stocked with water, milk, bread (lots and lots of bread for those growing boys), napkins, what-have-you. Every response is a gleaming-teethed (albeit enthusiastic), "no problem!"
Well, yippee. Glad my family and I are not a problem. But that response is the equivalent of "I don't disagree" instead of "I agree." Or perhaps a proclamation at dinner, "That's PRETTY good" (instead of good). It's a step down the ladder in friendliness - same number of syllables as "you're welcome," but the "no problem" is glib and puts the emphasis on the sayer instead of the receiver. And I'm not sure when it overtook the more friendly "you're welcome." But this isn't by any means the first time I've noticed it.
So I looked it up. It's not just me noticing this:
1) Yahoo! syndicated content from Nancy Tracy in 2008. She echoes the same idea.
2) The Boston Globe - Erin McKean - 2009.
There's more of the same out there, but those two are the first I saw.
I'm old; I'm my own problem, and I have a communication degree. :)
hln
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I tend to fall back on the Parker Lewis variation: "Not a problem."
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Posted by: Brian J. Noggle at December 31, 2010 03:13 PMI enjoyed reading your take on the "no problem" vs. "your welcome" debate. You're right... both phrases have the same number of syllables so it doesn't take an ounce more effort to be polite. Thanks for the mention of my article (and I will assume your answer is "you're welcome").
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