Talk:thanks a lot

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thanks a lot

Rfd-redundant: sarcastic sense. It's just the usual sense, but sarcastic. Delete.​—msh210℠ (talk) 18:39, 28 November 2011 (UTC)

• Administrative note: The entry had on it an {{rfv}} tag until now (because the only sense present when that tag was added was the sarcastic one). but it was never AFAICT brought to RFV. In nominating it here, I also removed the {{rfv}} tag.​—msh210℠ (talk) 18:39, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
• An OTRS correspondent writes (in protest of the rfv): "I'd steer clear from using it positively because, in my surroundings, it has been used so negatively it almost only means the negative to me.... I would use 'thank you so much' as the positive." Fwiw.​—msh210℠ (talk) 18:39, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
• Cf. talk:good luck with that.​—msh210℠ (talk) 18:47, 28 November 2011 (UTC)

• Delete, since it isn't always used sarcastically and is SoP. Compare with good for you which, in my ears and dialect, sounds like it should be sarcastic, but I have heard it used literally. ---> Tooironic 23:01, 28 November 2011 (UTC)

• Delete under this logic every word or term could be readded under a sarcastic sense and I don't think that makes sense, then we would add angry, fearsome, and happy senses too.

• The translations sections should be kept, i.e. as in day after tomorrow, as this phrase is very common and people will look it up. Matthias Buchmeier 11:00, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
  • Can't we merge it into the other sense's, with "(when sarcastic)" qualifiers added as necessary? (Note that there's a good deal of overlaps between the two tables.)​—msh210℠ (talk) 17:25, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

Deleted. I've removed redundant translations and tagged the rest with {{qualifier|when sarcastic}} and {{ttbc}}.​—msh210℠ (talk) 17:40, 17 January 2012 (UTC)