Thank you for a/the pleasant meeting

[Anton Shepelev]

Hello, all

I was thinking about the sentence:

Thank you for the/a pleasant and construcive
meeting.

Which article do you think would work better in the
context of an e-mail conversation after a meeting?
I somehow feel that both articles are usable and
correct here but can't exmplain why clearly...

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[Athel Cornish-Bowden]

On 2013-02-07 11:14:09 +0100, Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@g{oogle}mail.com> said:

> Hello, all
>
> I was thinking about the sentence:
>
> Thank you for the/a pleasant and construcive
> meeting.
>
> Which article do you think would work better in the
> context of an e-mail conversation after a meeting?
> I somehow feel that both articles are usable and
> correct here but can't exmplain why clearly...

Either will work OK. In a pedantic context "the" would imply that there
were other meetings that were not pleasant and constructive, but I
doubt whether anyone would react like that to an email message.


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athel

[Glenn Knickerbocker]

On 2/7/2013 5:14 AM, Anton Shepelev wrote:
> Thank you for the/a pleasant and construcive
> meeting.

Yes, either one is perfectly normal, and the distinction is subtle
enough not to matter. With "a" it suggests that you haven't already
communicated (or communicated strongly enough) that the meeting was
productive.

�R

[Anton Shepelev]

...Thank you for great replies, Athel and Glenn.