Conversation started Jul 29, 2015 at 0:38.
Anonymous
Jul 29, 2015 00:38
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A: which is more correct ? either "Thank you for your Kindly attention." or "Thank you for you Kind Attention."

KhanThe word kindly is both an adverb and adjective. Almost all the dictionaries say so. A kindly person or act is a kind one. For examples: She is a kindly old lady, It was a kindly act. I appreciate your kindly criticism. So it's grammatically correct to say "Thank you for your kindly attention"...

Anonymous
I think in English today the adjective kindly can only describe people (as in a kindly old man), so I think your kindly attention isn't really acceptable. — snailboat 7 hours ago
Anonymous
Snailboat, Cambridge and The Free Dictionary say that kindly can describe people and acts. — Khan 7 hours ago
Anonymous
Catija/Snailboat, I would appreciate your comments in reply to my comments. — Khan 5 hours ago
Anonymous
I'm not sure how to reply.
Anonymous
Here's the original sentence:
Anonymous
Jul 29, 2015 00:39
> Thank you for your Kindly attention.
Anonymous
Aww, I thought this was a fun question:
Anonymous
ell.stackexchange.com/questions/62969/…
Anonymous
But the author deleted it.
jimsug
jimsug
That comment was so on point.
ell.stackexchange.com/questions/62969/…
:( No onebox on deleted comments... natch
Anonymous
Sad!
jimsug
jimsug
Jul 29, 2015 00:53
> Looks good to me. As for as if the horse drank the water, who knows. There's a famous quote that says "you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink it". – Dronehinge 58 mins ago
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
@snailboat Sometimes I wonder if the more rep points a non-native speaker gets means the more different English the non-native speaker speaks.
@jimsug Oh, the question was deleted!
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
Jul 29, 2015 01:22
@snailboat Interesting! I found 535 results of "kindly attention" on Google Books.
(I'd expected something less than a hundred.)
Hmm... I can't get past the 100th page of "kind attention". Does Google cap it at 100?
Anonymous
I guess some people do say it.
Anonymous
Google caps all their results at 1000.
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
A-ha!
Anonymous
Which usually means ten pages, though
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
Ah, my default is 10 results a page.
Anonymous
Jul 29, 2015 01:26
Particularly in the main results, which are heavily culled, you'll find it often drops down to significantly less.
Anonymous
You might get, for example, 530 results for a common search term if you try to drill all the way down.
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
nods
Anonymous
For example, if I search for "walk in the park"
Anonymous
google.co.jp/…
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
I'm pretty sure that kind attention is way more frequently used than kindly attention.
jimsug
jimsug
Jul 29, 2015 01:27
googlebooks.byu.edu/?c=us&q=40710452
Anonymous
I get 345 results.
jimsug
jimsug
American Google Corpus with exact numbers :D
Anonymous
That's a lot more than I'd expect.
jimsug
jimsug
12890 v 1502 for kind attention and kindly attention, respectively
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
@jimsug A-ha!
Anonymous
Jul 29, 2015 01:29
What percent of kindly attention is used as a technical term in the context of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy?
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
@snailboat Oh, only 345? I thought the number would've been higher!
Anonymous
@DamkerngT. Well, I'm certain they have millions upon millions of results.
Anonymous
But you have no way to find that out through the Google search interface.
jimsug
jimsug
If you click on the link, there's some interesting distribution over time.
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
Ah, you mean that. Got it!
Anonymous
Jul 29, 2015 01:30
I added your before kind[ly] attention
jimsug
jimsug
Wow
googlebooks.byu.edu/?c=us&q=40710500
3711|82 for your kind|kindly attention
I wonder whether your search is including additional hits from Google-uk
Anonymous
1538 versus 14 if we start with 1930 :-)
jimsug
jimsug
googlebooks.byu.edu/?c=uk&q=40710544
No hits for your kindly attention in Google-uk at all.
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
@jimsug Hah!
jimsug
jimsug
@snailboat No mention of your kindly attention after the 80s
 
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