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>Most languages use "please" as a response to "thank you",
>but I think
>
> fi'i      COI      hospitality
> vocative: hospitality - inhospitality; you are welcome/ make yourself at
>home
>
>is intended to serve this purpose.

fi'i was indeed put into the language to serve as one possible answer to
"thank you", though simple acknowledgement should also be fine.  But we
also saw fi'i as serving for welcoming and invitation to an arrving guest
in which case the fi'i might come before the ki'e.

lojbab