Re: Official German spelling update

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.)
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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.