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receipt or reception?
Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2003 8:21 am
by cftranslate
I have read "I confirm receipt of your message..."
Does it sound English if I say "reception" instead.
Do you say "Please confirm RECEIPT/RECEPTION of my message" in English?
Thanks
Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2003 12:50 pm
by sita
Hi!
Receipt is correct:
= the act or process of receiving
Something received -- usually used in plural
A written acknowledgement of receiving of goods or money etc
Reception = a wedding reception or a hotel reception ....etc
Best wishes
Siân
Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2003 9:52 pm
by Celeste
Receipt is for things;reception is for people.
Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2003 2:29 pm
by Casiopea
Do you say "Please confirm RECEIPT/RECEPTION of my message" in English?
Actually, I've never seen nor heard of either being used.
"Please confirm
that you have received my message."
All the best,
Cas
Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2003 3:47 pm
by Lorikeet
Casiopea wrote:Do you say "Please confirm RECEIPT/RECEPTION of my message" in English?
Actually, I've never seen nor heard of either being used.
"Please confirm
that you have received my message."
All the best,
Cas
"Please confirm receipt of this message." sounds like a formal way of saying "Please confirm that you have received this message." I would expect the former in a business context.
Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2003 3:56 pm
by sita
I have taught business English for over 17 years in companies
and I am a translator.......
the phrase
please confirm you (have) received my email/letter/order etc etc
I have read that hundreds of times
Siân
(tired)
Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2003 7:50 am
by szwagier
decei(p)t or deception?
Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2003 6:19 pm
by Stephen Jones
You confirm/acknowledge receipt of a message.
Reception is a place or the manner in which people are treated on first or subsequent arrival.
Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2003 3:22 pm
by dduck
Celeste wrote:Receipt is for things;reception is for people.
If I move my TV antenna around do I get better receipt or reception?
Iain
Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2003 1:23 pm
by szwagier
And if I sell my baby to a white slave trader, do I get a reception or a receipt
Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2003 2:04 pm
by sita
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2003 11:17 am
by Harzer
Conceit or conception?
Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2004 3:57 pm
by kevinlin1222
According to Celeste, Receipt is for things;reception is for people.
But I just came across one example in a dictionary: Her calm reception of the bad news surprised her friends. This seems contradictory to the above-mentioned rule...
Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 12:37 pm
by Roger
"Receipt" is an ACT of receiving something, i.e. money; an acknowledgement;
"reception" is a) a social gathering or function; b) a place where visitors are registered (hotel reception); c) the act of receiving something, for instance broadcasts.
Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2004 2:40 pm
by My Dingaling
Obviously, everyone has given wonderful replies to this question, still I believe this to be the correct way to understand the answer. The nominalization of many English verbs is easily done by adding the suffix '-tion'; for instance, the word 'explain' is the verb, 'explaination' is the noun. In this light it is obvious that 'reception' is the nominal form of 'receive'. A 'receipt' is a noun and a verb and you do not need to nominalized it with the '-tion' suffix.