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Talk:No problem
Is this really an encyclopedia article?  And if you ''can'' justify an article about something so trivial and context-dependent, how can you possibly omit any mention of Jamaica, which would seem central to the phrase?  --LDC

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:perhaps it's part of the "simplified wikipedia"?   i.e. rules in the simplified would allow for simple phrase and idiom help for non-native-speakers.  24

To get back to "no problem", I am left puzzled by what people mean when they use it a cliché response to "thank you" instead of what used to be "you're welcome." [[user:Eclecticology|Eclecticology]]

:that's one of many puzzlements about this phrase, to be sure  - all worth noting  24

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I'm afraid that this particular article is more a combination of a dictionary entry and a page from a usage guide. However, it does contain useful information. Perhaps it would be better to write an article entitled [[stock phrase]], and use this information as an example. Oh, and I commonly use the phrase as a response to "thank you". I've always taken it to mean "My action was not unduly stressful or problematic, so please do not think that I was put out in doing it." --[[user:Stephen Gilbert|Stephen Gilbert]]