I have already RSVP's?

[Torsten]

Hi,

Please tell me what RSVP's stands for in the following sentence:

I have already RSVP's for the two remaining training dates, so I will go regardless.

Thanks a lot,
T
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[Alan]

Hi Torsten,

There seems to be a rather whacky logic here at first glance since taking RSVP at its face value ie requests for a response, you would expect the word 'but' instead of 'so' assuming the speaker is being trained rather than doing the training. But then in the latter case you would expect 'acceptances' rather than 'invitations'. Then again the English needs a bit of attention, too - I already have ...

Weird, or what?

Alan
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[Torsten]

Hi Alan,

Thanks a lot for your quick response -- now the sentence is slowly starting to make sense....

T
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