In Russian, in the culture of communication, there is no such concept as “thank you for asking.” In American English, however, it is one of the standard phrases of polite conversation – thanks for asking, as a prelude to a response. It is especially common to use thanks for asking when the question is about something important to the person being asked. Or thank you for contacting us. In Russian, it was always kind of assumed that if someone needed something, they asked, got an answer, and in such a scenario, the “thank you” should come from the person for whom all this was necessary. The exception – responses to questions from an audience. There, there is an unspoken rule to thank for the question, or even to praise for such a good question.
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