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[Plaid Pants2]

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@SaRina wrote:

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@Noel7 wrote:

They say the English language is a living language because it is constantly changing.

No worries and no problem are both common.  New phrases have always been with us, all generations come up with them.

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Yes. I sense from a lot of the posts here, some people don't want anything to change at all in their lifetime. Puzzling.

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Well, they think that their way of doing things is the only way of doing things, and the only correct way to do things, and anything different means that the world is going to he77 in a hand basket.

[Noel7]

IMO the real mistake was that someone was nice to you and, in return, you were rude to them @Pearlee

[Trinity11]

I hear it from many age groups and it does not bother me in the least...

[Marp]

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@Pearlee wrote:

When I thank someone whose response is "no problem" I say, "is 'you're welcome' not even in our vocabulary any more?"  because I am sincerely starting to wonder that.  It seems that an entire generation of people  is now responding "no problem" to a thank you.    Most of the time I didn't think whatever I said would be a problem anyway.

Please bring back "you are welcome" to our vocabulary - I really think it is disappearing.  

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I think you found the cure for the "problem".  After that response I doubt the person would reply to you with "no problem" again.

[Pook]

How rude it is to not recognize that the person saying no problem IS being polite and you are insulting them!!  Even if you don't like it, the intent is not to be rude to anyone.  It is your problem if you cannot recognize that.  I usually reply with no problem when someone is thanking me for doing something I did to help them out.  If someone would reply so rudely to me like OP does - well I would definitely state that now it's a problem and I'm sorry for going out of my way to help you!!!!  I would sooner have someone say it's not problem to help me out than to half heartedly help and say your welcome grudgingly which is just a preprogrammed response anyway!!!

[Pearlee]

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@Noel7 wrote:

IMO the real mistake was that someone was nice to you and, in return, you were rude to them @Pearlee

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@Noel7  My question isn't rude, except maybe to you.  I was posing a leigitimate question I wonder when someone says "no problem."

[Noel7]

If we didn't accept a changing language, we would all still be speaking Elizabethan English.

[Pearlee]

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@Pook wrote:

How rude it is to not recognize that the person saying no problem IS being polite and you are insulting them!!  Even if you don't like it, the intent is not to be rude to anyone.  It is your problem if you cannot recognize that.  I usually reply with no problem when someone is thanking me for doing something I did to help them out.  If someone would reply so rudely to me like OP does - well I would definitely state that now it's a problem and I'm sorry for going out of my way to help you!!!!  I would sooner have someone say it's not problem to help me out than to half heartedly help and say your welcome grudgingly which is just a preprogrammed response anyway!!!

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@Pook  I completely disagree with your interpretation.  Fortunately, nobody yet I've said that too has taken it the way you have.

[MalteseMomma]

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@shopper since 1989 wrote:

Hi Becky,

I know that it's pretty common to say that in Australia.

Jean

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.......and also  in Haiti,where I think it originated  

[hopi]

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@Plaid Pants2 wrote:

It doesn't bother me.

There are more important things for me to get upset over.

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ITA, it seem like a generous way of saying that it was no effort for me to help you.