Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 19:57:14 -0500

From: "Donald M. Lance" engdl[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]SHOWME.MISSOURI.EDU

Subject: Re: thank you . . . thank you



This evening I witnessed a Thank you response to a Thank you" in a Dairy

Queen. The second thanker stressed YOU. Now that the topic has been

mentioned, I realize I've heard these interchanges, with stress as here

described. I think I do it myself. Sometimes I say "No problem" if the

implication of the original thanks is that it might have been some trouble

for me to do whatever I was being thanked for.