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" How can we bring back the art of the RSVP? After half the people I invited to a party failed to reply, I called them, but I felt awkward. Some of my friends even claimed not to know what RSVP stands for. Was I right to call? The failure of people to respond to RSVP is one of the most frequent complaints I hear. The obligation implied by an RSVP is specific: Please reply \u2014 whether you&amp;#039;re accepting the invitation or declining. Picking up the phone was the correct thing to do. How else could you get a head count? (Though I trust when you called you didn&amp;#039;t sound too annoyed.) You can politely say: &amp;quot;We hadn&amp;#039;t heard from you, and I&amp;#039;m putting together a final count for the party. We hope you will be joining us.&amp;quot;   You&amp;#039;re certainly not alone in your yearning for the return of the RSVP, which is an abbreviation of the French expression respondez s&amp;#039;il vous plait (please reply). Whether it&amp;#039;s not knowing what the letters stand for or simply forgetting, too many guests fail to let their host know if they plan to come, and that&amp;#039;s just wrong. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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