US: "appreciate it". You don't, right?

[econophile]

peter harris,

aside from unfamiliarity, how is this different from someone saying "thank you?"

[Peter Harris]

thanks cheese, knew i should have checked the onion first. At the end of a holiday to the US i saw the 72% of all high fives unwarranted, which struck home to me.

[mason55]

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we were at a restaurant, and rather than the waiter lean across the table (and a candle) to reach a bread plate, I passed it over to him, he said "preciate it".

another time, I gave exact change in a store to save getting coins back, and copped it again.

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yeah, i haven't spent much time in Texas, but this is the kind of stuff I imagined it was in response to.

you think the server DIDN'T appreciate you passing him the bread? or the cashier DIDN'T appreciate the correct change?

[Peter Harris]

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peter harris,

aside from unfamiliarity, how is this different from someone saying "thank you?"

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that's what i meant with the please/thank you issue, but i think in the UK, "thanks/cheers" is the common response; "thank you" is more measured thanks.

I agree "appreciate it" is uncommon over here and would be construed as genuine, so unfamiliarity definitely plays a large part. is "appreciate it" an extremely common form of thanks in the US?

[Shadowrun]

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better for all of humanity if we all put a facade that we are perfect,caring people at all hours of the day.

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and eventually no-one will feel anything genuine, right?

EDIT: i guess the english equivalent is our massive overuse of "Please" and "Thankyou" - you'll here it about 4/5 times in an average transaction. So it's not entirely an American issue, i do concede [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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who won the french elections again?

[Peter Harris]

mason, it was the intonation that really made me think it was just verbal diarrhoea on their part. I think even when people don't give a damn here, you don't drop your intonation...

[RunDownHouse]

Sometimes I use "'preciate it" instead of "thank you," but I mean both of them, whichever I choose.

[Peter Harris]

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who won the french elections again?

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Monsieur Sarkozy, the guy who called rioters "Scumbags". the perfect man for the job! [???]

[Dids]

I refuse to use "how is it going" unless I actually care, which I really don't. Often times when people say that to me, I respond with "hi" or "yes" and nobody notices.

[punkass]

Can't believe people are complaining when people are being nice.

You'd rather people just give you blank stare and punch you in the face?