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I’m not sure this will reassure you but recall that the normal, schoolbook-polite French expression for “you’re welcome” is “de rien”–literally “it’s nothing” but very much in the same spirit as “(it’s) no problem.”
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Kathryn Jean Lopez is a senior fellow at the National Review Institute and the religion editor of National Review. Sign up for her weekly newsletter here. She is the author of A Year with the Mystics: Visionary Wisdom for Daily Living.
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