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S'il

Thank you to a diligent IP editor for correcting my ignorance: the wiktionary entry for s'il vous plaît supports the literal translation "If it pleases you" (despite giving only the English meanings "please" and "if you please"); the one on si'l (which invokes those on si (if) and il (it)) vividly supports the fact that s'il is a contraction with the meaning (in this case) of "if it". (Do i need to note that a change of word order is of course involved, since the two languages use different word order for the equivalent grammatical constructions?)
--Jerzy•t 05:17, 21 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Emily Post Section

The phrase is shown as "R.S.V.P" in the Emily Post section. I was under the impression that a period follows every letter because it represents an abbreviation. Is the "P" not an abbreviation for a word? Or is that how the phrase was mistakenly written by the person who is being quoted? --Coching (talk) 23:42, 25 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Rice Stew?

Is this made-up? There are no citations, and, on the face of it, it doesn't make any sense that there would be an English-language acronym in Africa that means something completely different from what the same acronym means in English-speaking cultures. --70.89.118.42 (talk) 21:29, 14 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I think this is malicious, deleted it from the page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.89.135.251 (talk) 08:02, 26 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

How do I spoke French?

'(pronounced fast as "Ray-pon-dey seel-voo-play")' Fucking Americans who can't be bothered to learn how to pronounce French properly. This is not how it is pronounced in France (it might be pronounced like that by American hicks, but c'mon) so I will remove it.

howdoishotweb.jpg -ArvinJA (talk) 10:06, 4 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

No personal attacks, please. Thank you. Fractalchez (talk) 23:20, 15 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

RSVP equivalent in German

What is the German equivalent phrase or acronym for RSVP? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.206.181.135 (talk) 05:23, 17 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

A Word?

This article calls RSVP a 'distinctly American word'.

Am I the only one who has a major problem with calling an all-caps initialism with no vowels a word!? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.176.92.82 (talk) 06:03, 23 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

That line was not properly referenced. There was no citation; just essentially a footnote. Removed it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.176.92.82 (talk) 06:12, 23 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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So what does it mean?

The article says: Its literal translation is "Please respond", but this is not its true meaning in English usage..

It then goes on to define several variations of the term, but there is nothing that says what is the true meaning in English, which is why I read this page in the first place.

If it doesn't mean "please respond", what does it mean? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2607:FEA8:1C80:417:9895:9710:CD57:ED53 (talk) 16:05, 12 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

literally meaning "Respond, if you please", or just "Please respond"

Those are two entirely different things. It's the first one. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 161.69.122.15 (talk) 19:59, 28 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]