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From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram)
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Subject: Re: Official German spelling update
Date: 15 Jul 2024 19:28:37 GMT
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ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote or quoted:
>If "Dank" was countable, we'd probably say *"Ich sagen Ihnen viele
>Danke!" ("I'm giving you many thanks."), so not "vielen" either.
>(Nowadays, "thanks" is considered a noun with no plural.)
>
>Nobody knows why the formula "Vielen Dank!" got stuck and
>is used instead of "Viel Dank!". And since we don't really
>understand the expression "Vielen Dank!" we can't analyze
>it further. It's opaque to us.

  Two corrections: Please read:

(Nowadays, "Dank" is considered a noun with no plural.)

  and

understand the expression "Vielen Dank!", we can't analyze

  with a comma.