It's like an epidemic or something: suddenly, everyone around me is saying (and writing) \"No worries.\"<\/p>\n
It's not a phrase I'm used to hearing very often, at least not from Americans. It started a week ago with Richard from Comcast customer service; he said it in an annoying and repetitive way in response to my being annoyed. I would say \"Yes, I understand that I'll have to pay $50 if the repair person doesn't find anything, but I want a repair person to come out anyway\" and he would say \"No worries\" (emphasis on first syllable; if only there were a convenient way to show intonation in writing! I suppose I could write the tune in ABC format, but that would take more energy than this is really worth).<\/p>\n
And then I started seeing and hearing it everywhere. (Though nobody else has said it in an obnoxious or annoying way.) At least half a dozen occurrences in the past week. And then today at work two different people said it aloud to me, and I saw it once in email.<\/p>\n
It may be that law-of-fives thing again: maybe Richard at Comcast attuned me to it, so I started noticing it more. But I think it's an unusual enough phrase that I usually notice it when I run into it.<\/p>\n
Is this some sort of tipping point? Has \"No worries\" replaced \"No problem\"? (Is there a Russian equivalent to go with \"Nyet problema\"?) Has some famous or popular person started saying it? In the future, will everyone say it?<\/p>\n
Anyway, no worries, I won't start obsessing about this or anything.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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