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[halcyon snow]

Please be patient

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[viscid sigil]

I think, other natives could see it very differently, but merci pour seems to be the natural choice, and merci de for official requests.

But I guess it's a though one, because it seems to vary a lot without much explanation.

We could probably have a theorie about merci being the short version of Je remercie X

[desert vine]

interesting

[languid ice]

Merci de + infinitive, always
Merci de + abstract noun
Merci pour + any noun

[viscid sigil]

second one is absolutely unclear,
Also, there's cases where both are working you can easily say Merci du repas or merci pour le repas

Casually speaking, when there's the choice, pour seems to be the tendency.

[languid ice]

Yeah, both de and pour can be used for nouns, but de is generally used for abstract concepts while pour is pretty much anything