Any explanation / meaning / backstory is more than welcome, or you can just drop it for everyone to try and resolve.

  • boydster
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    Gramercy, in lieu of “thank you very much.” I don’t know why, but it’s something from Mallory’s King Arthur stories that always stuck with me and I think it deserves a revival.

    ETA: for those unaware, it’s a conjunction of the French gran merci, which translates the same way you probably suspect: big thanks, or grand thanks, or in other words, thank you very much

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      21 hours ago

      Funnily enough we don’t even use “gran(d) merci”, at least not anymore, we use merci beaucoup instead, because we french are incapable of speaking concisely

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        Je suis American and only just learning some French, I’m glad you came along with better notes. Gramercy, in fact!

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      Thank you very much for not creating some omegamercy or chadmercy… or should i rephrase: gramercy for that!