Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ut-sally.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!hao!seismo!ut-sally!riddle From: riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: "You're welcome" in German (Re: Don't mention it) Message-ID: <401@ut-sally.UUCP> Date: Thu, 6-Dec-84 11:11:31 EST Article-I.D.: ut-sally.401 Posted: Thu Dec 6 11:11:31 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 9-Dec-84 03:22:39 EST References: <11800001@acf4.UUCP> <17428@lanl.ARPA> Organization: U. of Tx. at Houston-in-the-Hills Lines: 13 Since Alan Turing was English and not German, this has marginal relevance to the original discussion, but the question came up so I'll answer it. The German equivalent for "you're welcome" is the same as their word for "please": "bitte". So a (ridiculously?) simple conversation might go: "Haben Sie Feuer, bitte?" (Do you have a light, please?) "Ja." (Yes.) "Danke [schoen]." (Thank you [very much].) "Bitte [sehr]." (You're [quite] welcome.) --- Prentiss Riddle ("Aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada.") --- {ihnp4,harvard,seismo,gatech,ctvax}!ut-sally!riddle