From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de   
      
   ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote or quoted:   
   >If "Dank" was countable, we'd probably say *"Ich sagen Ihnen viele   
   >Danke!" ("I'm giving you many thanks."), so not "vielen" either.   
   >(Nowadays, "thanks" is considered a noun with no plural.)   
   >   
   >Nobody knows why the formula "Vielen Dank!" got stuck and   
   >is used instead of "Viel Dank!". And since we don't really   
   >understand the expression "Vielen Dank!" we can't analyze   
   >it further. It's opaque to us.   
      
     Two corrections: Please read:   
      
   (Nowadays, "Dank" is considered a noun with no plural.)   
      
     and   
      
   understand the expression "Vielen Dank!", we can't analyze   
      
     with a comma.   
      
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