Talk:thanks a lot

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thanks a lot[edit]

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

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)[reply]
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)[reply]
Cf. talk:good luck with that.—msh210℠ (talk) 18:47, 28 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]
- 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)[reply]

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