I get annoyed when people say “appreciate it”.

Cheers to that. And there's always levels of communication and abbreviation...if someone holds a door for you, you don't fall all over yourself in gratitude...you can say, hey thanks! But for significant acts that require proper acknowledgment...yeah, that's worth saying something properly in an unabbreviated fashion. Ppl may have misconstrued your point as if you believe that all shortened forms of communication are unacceptable. It's clear to me that you're just suggesting that for a worthy moment, it should be respected and treated as such with a full expression which shows respect. Many other languages have this built in to different forms of the same word so that respect is explicit. In English it used to exist as well by adding honorific words to speech. Nothing wrong with expressing respect in any language.

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