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"Thank you for listening!" I can't say it casually

Tonight, as usual, I read aloud in the group. After reading, I said "Thank you for listening!" as usual. I never thought there was anything wrong with saying this. Unexpectedly, a famous person in "Talking about Writing | Niu Rentang" enthusiastically pointed it out to me to avoid making mistakes in the future.

I felt a little confused, so I searched on Baidu. I discovered that this big shot wrote such an article a few years ago to explain and popularize this issue.

?In fact, in many lectures, we will see that the last slide is "Thank you for listening!" But in fact, we really use the wrong word, mistakenly using the word of honor as the word of humility.

? Let’s talk about the reasons: listening, pictophonetic. The word follows the ear and the order, and the order also sounds. "Ling" means "command". "Ear" and "Ling" are combined to mean "listen to instructions".

Listen: Concentrate and listen carefully. It refers to listening piously and carefully, with a color of respect. Therefore, it generally means that subordinates listen to the opinions and reports of superiors, or that juniors accept the teachings and instructions of their elders. It is a word of respect.

?In ancient China, intellectuals were very polite among themselves. When addressing each other, there are often distinctions between respectful words and modest words.

?Honor words and humility words are both polite and polite words. Honor words are used to show respect to others. They are names for the other person or things related to the other person. The word modesty is used to express self-humility. It is a name for oneself or things related to oneself. Both respectful words and modest words have obvious tendencies. These words must be used correctly, otherwise they will make a joke.

? Commonly used honorific words include "gui" (such as your school, your company), "big" (such as masterpieces, used to refer to each other's works), "gao" (such as high opinions), and "respect" (such as respecting the surname and name), "bai" (such as asking for help), "ci" (such as giving advice and asking others for advice), "ya" (such as Yazheng, asking the other party for correction), "hui" (such as patronage), etc.

In conversations, using "father", "mother", "brother", etc. is to use "家" and "家" to humbly address one's parents, siblings, but not to Call others parents and brothers. Calling other people's parents and brothers "Ling" shows respect, such as calling other people's parents "Your Majesty" or "Your Majesty", and calling other people's children "Young Master" or "Ling Ai". Contrary to the respectful words mentioned above, such as calling one's work "my humble work" and calling one's opinions "contemptible", "foolish view", "simple view", etc.

The tendency of some words to be modest and respectful may not be obvious, but it exists objectively and should be paid attention to. For example, "Ding Li" in "Ding Li" is used to express gratitude for others' help, but cannot be used to talk about one's own help to others. Another example is "a little bit thin", which is used for the self-effacement of the elderly and cannot be used casually.

? "Thank you for listening" is a joke that treats the honorific "listening" as a modest word. As students or listeners, when we say "listen" to experts' lectures, it is an affirmation and respect for the experts and the content of their lectures. And when an expert says, "Thank you (student or audience) for listening to (my, expert's class)!", he is speaking out loud and without any humility. He thinks that what he said is good, that it is teaching, and that it is worthy of students or the audience to listen carefully!

? There is another way to say: "Thank you for reading." It's the same joke as "Thanks for listening." We can only say that we want to read other people's works, but we cannot say that others "want to read" our own works. Therefore, you can’t say “Thank you for reading”!

?Some people say that at the end of a lecture, if you just say "Thank you!", you always feel that you have not finished the lesson. Saying "Thank you everyone" also feels too cliché. So what to do?

?Some people end with "sincere thanks", while others end with "sincere thanks and blessings". Of course, you can come up with a better acknowledgment. However, I hope there will be no more "thank you for listening" jokes.

Attachment: Commonly used words of respect and words of modesty

Huici: words of respect, referring to gifts (properties) from the other party

Family father: words of humility, referring to one's own to others Father

Mother: a humble word, calling others one's mother

Arrival: a respectful word, calling the other person's arrival

Borrowing: refers to borrowing the strength of others, multi-purpose Making respectful speeches

Young lady (Yuan): respectful speech, calling the other party’s daughter

Young Master: respectful speech, calling the other party’s son

First-in-law: respectful speech , address each other as a relative

Your father: respectfully, address the other person’s mother

Father: respectfully, address the other person’s father

Taifu: respectfully, A word used in the old days to ask someone

Ding Li: respectful speech, vigorous (used to express requests or thanks)

Bold: to describe boldness (mostly used as a word of humility)

Fang family: Jingci, the abbreviation of "generous family", mostly refers to people who are proficient in certain knowledge and art

Your Excellency: Jingci, addressing the other party, mostly used in diplomatic situations

Patronize: a respectful word, often used by merchants to welcome customers

Visit: a respectful word, to say that guests have arrived

Guigeng: a respectful word, to ask someone’s age

Guiyang: Respectful words, calling the other party's illness

Haihan: Respectful words, generous and tolerant (mostly used when asking for special forgiveness)

Humble House: Modest words, calling one's home

Houxue: A late scholar or scholar, often used as a modest speech

Huicun: A respectful speech, please keep it, used when giving photos, books and other souvenirs

Huilin: Respectful words, referring to the other person to come to you