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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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All the more reason for someone to establish a '''Wiktionary''' as a separate project.  There are so many argumentative people that would succeed there.  
: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

::Perhaps a wikipedia for the simpl!  Non-native speakers have the advantage that when they learn an english term it is not prejudiced by the belief that they thought they knew what it meant.
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

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]]