You're welcome. (stiff and formal, perhaps even condescending?)
Thanking/thank you in advance?

My questions are: who thinks 'you're welcome' is old-fashioned,or perhaps even condescending??
Who uses the phrase 'thanking you in advance'?
Ist da ein Unterschied zwischen AE und BE?
Ich habe nur 'thank you' gelernt, nicht 'thank you in advance'..

1. HBR Guide to Better Business Writing. © 2012
Harvard Business Review Guides.
2. Garner's Modern American Usage. (3d ed., Oxford 2009)

Be plain-spoken:Avoid bizspeak.
Hunt for offending phrases.
1.Bizspeak may seem like convenient shorthand,but it suggests to readers that you're on autopilot, thoughtlessly using boilerplate phrases that people have heard over and over. Brief readable documents, by contrast,show care and thought.

NOT THIS: Thank you for your courtesy and cooperation regarding this manner.
BUT THIS: Thank you.

NOT THIS: Thank you in advance for your courtesy and cooperation in this regard. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have questions regarding this request.
BUT THIS: Thank you. If you have any questions,please call.


2. Thanking you in advance. See thank you.
Thank you. A. Generally.This
phrase remains the best, most serviceable phrase,despite various attempts to embellish it or truncate it: thanking you in advance (presumptuous and possible insulting) thank you very much (with a trailer of surplusage), thanks (useful for on informal occasions), many thanks (informal but emphatic)

B.Response. 
The traditional response to Thank you is 'You're welcome.
Somehow, though,in the 1980s, You're welcome came to feel a little stiff and formal, perhaps even condescending (as if the speaker were saying, "Yes, I really did you a favor, didn't I?")
As a result, two other responses started displacing "You're welcome:"
1 "No problem" (as if the speaker were saying, "Don't worry, you didn't inconvenience me too much"); and (2) "No, thank you"(as if the person doing the favor really considered the other person to have done the favor). The currency
of You're welcome seems to diminish little by little,but steadily.
Old-fashioned speakers continue to use it, but its future doesn't look bright.

@ hm—us, I hope you don't think that my 'you're welcome' replies are too stiff or condescending. I guess I'm old-fashioned. :-) :-(

Thank you.


Here is an old thread. (advance)
related discussion: Vielen Dank im Voraus - #7
# 7 Ghol(BE)