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 How Does One Say Thank You?
In the US, Thanksgiving is not only a holiday to share with family and friends, but to be deeply grateful for all blessings. How do you say thank you in your language or culture? What kinds of things have you done in the past to thank others/show your gratitude?
 12 Nov 2007 19:19
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 What I do amore01 is send cards (friend-ship, love, encouragement, Birthday, just for fun), with a detail in it, maybe a picture or a chocolate, or 20 bucks, depends of my friend, nowadays we only use the e-mail and e-cards for everything, but I think sending paper cards with a nice detail, its a very important way to say, thank you or you are my friend, or you mean very much to me. And it will last forever and ever.
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  12 Nov 2007 19:32
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 What a great way to keep your gratitude personal and meaningful! I agree that a personl, hand-written thank you note/greeting is a rare treat these days, and it is so much more meaningful to me when someone takes the time to do this. Thank you for sharing this. :)
by   amore01   12 Nov 2007 19:43    
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 The Irish words for 'Thank you' are 'Go raibh math agut'.Its pronounced more like 'Gurrimotagut'. If you want to REALLY thank someone,you'd say-Go raibh MILE math agut,which means 'A thousand Thank You's.It seems to be quite common here to thank people in irish.I like irish,and its fun to use it to say thank you.

Sometimes if I am very grateful to someone,I don't know how to thank them!When my friend Hayley gave me the gerbil brothers,I didn't know how to thank her,but she was glad just to be my friend!
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  12 Nov 2007 19:49
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 Wow! Thank you for sharing the Irish language with all of us! :) (How does one pronounce "mile" properly?) I also have had times when I was left without good enough words to express my heartfelt thanks, but even saying this seems to helps others understand how much gratitude you have. And true friends are the best--they just seem to "get it"! :)
by   amore01   12 Nov 2007 19:56    
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 If its an elderly person and catholic i would send them a mass card. There are mass cards that you send to a family member when someone dies expressing sympathy and having a mass offered for them. But there are mass cards which offer up a mass for the recipients attentions. So don't do what i done once and mixed them up. As justice14 says, i too like to send cards with an Irish flavour and a Gaelic greeting. But to all my protestant friends its usually a Christmas card with a handwritten message. :)
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by   padraig
  13 Nov 2007 02:07
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 The mass cards--You mixed them up??? oh no! :)
by   amore01   13 Nov 2007 10:40    
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 I wanted to share this...
Our neighbor from across the street invited our family to a Christmas tea one year. Just us and their family and their parents from out of town. An informal gathering. A day later, we received a Thank you card, with a hand-written message thanking us for sharing that time with them.
I thought it was the most gracious thing for a hostess to do. It has stayed in my mind all these years.

Unfortunately, 9/11 claimed the father and this lovely family is no more. So sad.
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by   Dext
  13 Nov 2007 15:33
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 Genuinely touching gesture from your neighbor. And so sad the father has passed.
by   amore01   13 Nov 2007 15:48    
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 I say thank you a number of ways; a little card, a hug, phone call, email, special lunch/dinner, send a small gift, or just plain "THANK YOU - I treasure your friendship"! At Thanksgiving at our house, we put everyone's name on a small piece of paper, fold it in half, place in a basket and everyone draws a name. We then take turns telling "that special person" WHY they are so special to us. Our family doesn't do this often enough during the year and sometimes we have a few teary eyes but such a wonderful day to remember!
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  13 Nov 2007 23:11
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 I remember hearing of something like that, I think it's wonderful.
by   JoeDoaks   13 Nov 2007 23:47    
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 My heritage is Vietnamese. I think the most important thing I've been taught as a Vietnamese kid is that honoring your family/parents is most important. Supporting your parents and being thankful to them is very important. After all they are the ones that raised me and gave me a good childhood.

But otherwise you express your thanks by helping most who are deserving of help. Those who help other will always get help.

BTW the word for thank you is "cam on" I can't but the right accent marks in though....
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  14 Nov 2007 00:36
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 Thank you for this, megamaster. :)
by   amore01   14 Nov 2007 09:17    
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 No need to say thank you to a person who had done favor to us. Wait wait my dear friend loll, let me complete, just reciprocate your gratitude by hugging him. If the person is a girl, i shake hand loll.

I do remember the help given and reciprocate when he is in need. That's my way of saying thank you loll
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  13 Nov 2007 09:28
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 Hugs are great thank yous! I hug both male and female friends.
by   amore01   13 Nov 2007 10:42    
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 Thank you-being there for someone; not so much buying stuff; thinking about someone; helping someone; telling a person how mush you care; doing favors for that person; handmaking gifts for them; cooking for them; being there when they call upon you; and most of all, Saying Thank you.
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