Timeline for Is it appropriate to reply every time to a professor's "thank you" email?
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| Sep 12, 2014 at 8:15 | answer | added | Don Quixote | timeline score: 7 | |
| Sep 12, 2014 at 2:19 | comment | added | Yes | @AssortedTrailmix: Thanks so much :) You know what, sometimes all these tacitly understood usages and their connotations truly ... When I want to be polite by saying "you're welcome" then it may turn out to be considered "arrogant". I will take care of these subtleties, much appreciated. | |
| Sep 12, 2014 at 2:11 | comment | added | Selali Adobor | For what it's worth, I'd feel that "no problem" is very slightly less formal than "you are welcome" (or even "not a problem"). For example, I'd expect someone to be a little more likely to respond to a friend or colleague with "no problem", than a professor or person in authority. It could also come down to other factors such as the region (e.g. I hear "no problem" in public places such as eateries around New York more than I do in Texas). But some might even say "you're welcome" comes across slightly arrogant as this answer explains . | |
| Sep 11, 2014 at 23:43 | comment | added | Micah Walter | Also note that if a professor signs off her email with “Thanks” (as many do with “Best” or “Cheers”), do not take this alone as an invitation to send a response! | |
| Sep 11, 2014 at 20:58 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackAcademia/status/510170474341355520 | ||
| Sep 11, 2014 at 15:16 | comment | added | Yes | @LightnessRacesinOrbit: Thank you for your praise. The English is good because ff524 helps a lot! :) | |
| Sep 11, 2014 at 15:13 | comment | added | Trylks | I'm usually the one thanking my professors... Anyway, in your situation I'd add the "You're welcome" reply in any mail that would need to be sent (if there is any) and if not then let it be. That's what I'd do, but social conventions may change in very local ways. | |
| Sep 11, 2014 at 15:11 | vote | accept | Yes | ||
| Sep 11, 2014 at 14:30 | comment | added | Lightness Races in Orbit | FWIW, your English in this question is better than that of most native speakers I know. | |
| Sep 11, 2014 at 5:54 | answer | added | mako | timeline score: 8 | |
| Sep 11, 2014 at 2:46 | history | edited | Yes | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 11, 2014 at 2:45 | answer | added | Jeromy Anglim | timeline score: 50 | |
| Sep 11, 2014 at 2:40 | history | edited | ff524 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 11, 2014 at 2:38 | comment | added | Yes | @JeromyAnglim: Totally consistent with what I was trying to say if you say "reply 'no problem' or 'you are welcome' to a series of emails from a Professor saying 'thanks'"! | |
| Sep 11, 2014 at 2:37 | comment | added | ff524 | @Jeromy I think it was meant to be Should you as a student reply to an email from a professor that says "thanks"?, not necessarily Should you as a student reply "thanks" to an email from a professor that says "thanks"? (the OP didn't say anything about the content of the reply) | |
| Sep 11, 2014 at 2:34 | comment | added | Jeromy Anglim | I'm still a bit confused, but I think I understand. You receive an email from a professor saying "thanks". Should you as a student reply "thanks" to an email from a professor that says "thanks"? | |
| Sep 11, 2014 at 2:32 | comment | added | Yes | @ff524: Thank you very much for your edit! It gets much more close to what I was trying to say. | |
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| Sep 11, 2014 at 2:30 | comment | added | ff524 | @JeromyAnglim your edit seems to be wrong, per the discussion in comments | |
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| Sep 11, 2014 at 2:24 | answer | added | Ben Webster | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 11, 2014 at 2:23 | comment | added | Yes | @BenWebster: Thank you very much for your attention. The truth is Bill Barth read it correctly, my question is what I intend to express. :) | |
| Sep 11, 2014 at 2:21 | comment | added | Yes | Ah, I did not mean that... I just make a hypothetical situation so that I would have a ruler in mind to handle this. Because I always reply to every thank-you, I am afraid whether this habit would backfire my sincerity. | |
| Sep 11, 2014 at 2:21 | comment | added | Ben Webster | @Comeseeconquer I think you may have written this ambiguously. I think you mean "Is it appropriate to send a thank-you email in response to every email from a professor," but I think Bill Barth is reading you differently. | |
| Sep 11, 2014 at 2:18 | comment | added | Bill Barth | How many thank you emails do you get from your professors? Is it really that many? | |
| Sep 11, 2014 at 2:09 | comment | added | Yes | @BillBarth: But could it turn out to be annoying or offending if one replies every thank-you? | |
| Sep 11, 2014 at 2:07 | comment | added | Yes | @BillBarth: Ah, I see. Thank you so much :). Just want to get some feeling about how people in a different culture would feel and think :) | |
| Sep 11, 2014 at 2:04 | comment | added | Bill Barth | It can't hurt to say "You're welcome." | |
| Sep 11, 2014 at 1:58 | history | asked | Yes | CC BY-SA 3.0 |