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>>Thank you for clarifying this. I thought (mistakenly) that in french as in Russian there is the same word for "please" and "you are welcome".
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>Like the German "bitte" and, I think, the Dutch "uistubleift" (sp?)
Yes, just like German 'bitter'.
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