Is 'thank you' disappearing?

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I try to say it. Or 'thanks'. Or 'ta'.

But I cannot stop the ubiquitious 'chiz' coming out in its place quite often.

Are you a chizzer?

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 1 February 2003 13:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Nope never said chiz. I always say thanks, I hope.

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 1 February 2003 13:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Thank you isn't disappearing. Cheers is replacing thanks.

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 1 February 2003 13:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I fight against "Cheers" cause it sounds stupid in my accent. But I generally do try to go out of my way to think people. "Thanks" usually suffices. I'm trying to be a more gracious person.

― kate, Saturday, 1 February 2003 13:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Good for you! (seriously)

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 1 February 2003 13:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I've found myself saying cheers dude. Eeek!!!!

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 1 February 2003 13:28 (twenty-two years ago)

But never 'chiz dude'?? You fooled me

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 1 February 2003 13:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I once tore a new arsehole for a work supervisor who had taken to writing 'Thanx' at the end of all requests: "What, can you not be bothered to write the whole word? Are we not worth the effort or something?" It's difficult to work for nings.

There's also something totally patronising about 'ta' as well; f'rinstance it's how the posh/managers thank the unposh/support staff in every office I have ever entered.

― suzy (suzy), Saturday, 1 February 2003 13:37 (twenty-two years ago)

chiz dude, God, yeah, it does come out like that.

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 1 February 2003 13:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I am embarrassed to say I recently rounded off an email to IT Support with "ta muchly".

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 1 February 2003 13:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Mark, that's horrendous!

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 1 February 2003 13:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I know, I know! What was I thinking? I also made a reference to the "p(r)oxy server" in the email which gives some indication of my feelings about the fault at the time.

Serves me right if they never fix it....

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 1 February 2003 13:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I only ever do 'ta' if I'm angry and speaking to someone in a call centre who can't do anything except read off a Xeroxed script.

― suzy (suzy), Saturday, 1 February 2003 13:45 (twenty-two years ago)

'Ta' is not an angry word! It evokes coffee shops.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 1 February 2003 13:46 (twenty-two years ago)

...where someone says it to you. I was talking about when I use it.

― suzy (suzy), Saturday, 1 February 2003 13:48 (twenty-two years ago)

always 'Thanks' or 'Thank you'. whether in email or in person (though 'Thanx' will become more and more common because of txt messaging and so on but I haven't got that so far on an email).

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 1 February 2003 13:48 (twenty-two years ago)

text messages I end with "easy dude!"

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 1 February 2003 13:51 (twenty-two years ago)

'ta' is much quicker to text than 'thanx'!

I knew what you meant suzy but I still don't see why you use it in the angry call centre sitatution.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 1 February 2003 13:53 (twenty-two years ago)

i say "thank you" all the time. i s'pose there's lots to thank people for in everyday life. people are generally pretty cool. the others, well, they can just fuck off. not that i'd actually say that.

what about "please"?

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Saturday, 1 February 2003 15:54 (twenty-two years ago)

finally i understand, "chiz".

― di smith (lucylurex), Saturday, 1 February 2003 16:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't imagine saying "cheers" as a sincere way of thanking someone, maybe if I'm going home and I've been at a friends house I might say "cheers" as a combination of thanks and goodbye but never if someone had done me a big favour. You can't stress thanks or cheers enough, I prefer to say something like "I appreciate this" or bloody anything that feels as though I'm not just rhyming it off. I really fear someone thinking I'm not grateful if I am.

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 1 February 2003 16:31 (twenty-two years ago)

di, the 'chiz' that Sarah et al. do is a Molesworth thing I think and nothing to with my transcription of the word 'cheers'.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 1 February 2003 16:35 (twenty-two years ago)

"a chiz is a swiz or a swindle as any fule kno"

i thk it comes from "chiseller", as yelled in that song by the fall ("pink floyd are SHORT!")

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 1 February 2003 16:40 (twenty-two years ago)

the grebt rock'n'roll chiz

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 1 February 2003 16:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I know a guy whom people call "chiz".

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 1 February 2003 16:43 (twenty-two years ago)

The chizzer.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 1 February 2003 16:45 (twenty-two years ago)

The Jza.

― Lara (Lara), Saturday, 1 February 2003 19:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I say thank you ALL THE TIME. I have a politeness complex -- I get impatient and cranky a lot and I try very hard to hide that/make up for it by being super-nice, especially with waiters, shop clerks, and other people in shitty jobs who take abuse all day long from impatient, cranky cockfarmers like me.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 1 February 2003 20:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I love 'ta'! (Remnant of Mike Leigh fixation.) But I could never use it. Cheers sounds fun too. I like how it can also be used for goodbye. (I can only use it for clinking glasses but there I like to use 'Chin chin' ironic remnant of Withnail fixation but irony when you're the only aware of it, C/D? I know Felicity thinks C, but sometimes it's a bit lonely.

― Mary (Mary), Saturday, 1 February 2003 22:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I say thank you in inappropriate situations.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Saturday, 1 February 2003 22:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Like when someone's just stolen your purse?

― Lara (Lara), Saturday, 1 February 2003 22:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Saturday, 1 February 2003 22:37 (twenty-two years ago)

That level of politeness is charming. And beguiling.

― Lara (Lara), Saturday, 1 February 2003 22:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Along with wearing old man coats and rolling your own fags, I think there is something a bit middleclass studenty slumming about chiz. It makes me think of Alan Parker Urban Warrior: "Clever wording... cheers!"

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Saturday, 1 February 2003 22:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I agree. "To your very best health" is much less uncouth.

― Lara (Lara), Saturday, 1 February 2003 22:46 (twenty-two years ago)

irony when you're the only aware of it, C/D? I know Felicity thinks C

I do? Well I thought that the yellow and black-and-white checkered emergency vehicle in Islington was a displaced New York taxicab, so what do I know.

― felicity (felicity), Saturday, 1 February 2003 23:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Best,

― nabisco (nabisco), Sunday, 2 February 2003 00:23 (twenty-two years ago)

two months pass...

I like N's solicitousness about old things.

― the pinefox, Thursday, 24 April 2003 23:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I say it TOO much. Like at the tollbooth:'Thank you for taking my money'

― buttch (Oops), Thursday, 24 April 2003 23:34 (twenty-two years ago)

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