Thanks is not more informal than thank you and i will die on that hill
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Anonymous4w
„I appreciate it!“
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Anonymous4w
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Anonymous#44w
I am curious to hear your reasoning
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Anonymous#54w
Thanks = less serious. You’re just giving thanks… vaguely
Thank you = more serious. You’re specifically assigning your thanks to YOU
They both come from the same root word of “thank”, so “thanks” is not inherently more informal. “thanks” is just less genuine feeling.
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Anonymous#74w
thanks is casual and informal. it’s an abbreviation of the formal “thank you”.