Closing salutations - business correspondence/emails

[Anonymous]

"I remain, as always, your humble and devoted servant," and then, in subsequent correspondence with the same person,

"I remain &c, &c,"

But really, I use cheers, best, and best regards for the relatively informal stuff. Sincerely for more formal.

The one I really dislike is "thanks in advance". It's like you're assuming I'm going to do the thing you're asking me to do, that my compliance is a foregone conclusion, and that you'll have something to thank me for. That's not a safe assumption.

[Anonymous]

Put THAT in your pipe and smoke it,

John Smith
Assistant Director
ACME Corp.

[Anonymous]

ooh even better than that -- TIA!

[Anonymous]

Here's another one:

If you are in an extended email exchange, do you continue to begin each email with Hi or Hello

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here's another one:

If you are in an extended email exchange, do you continue to begin each email with Hi or Hello

I just go with "sup"

[Anonymous]

I use 'best regards' it's part of my signature, so goes standard to everyone unless I change it for specific email either to something more or less formal.

[Anonymous]

Ha! I used to put Good morning/afternoon/evening back in the day on emails. Now I just say Hello.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here's another one:

If you are in an extended email exchange, do you continue to begin each email with Hi or Hello

If it's someone reachable by telephone, I just pick up the phone and call the person. Really hate extended email exchanges. If it's someone who is in a very different time zone, so I would expect that they would see my email the next day for them or for me, then yes, I continue adding hi or dear.

[Anonymous]

All best,
Mary

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here's another one:

If you are in an extended email exchange, do you continue to begin each email with Hi or Hello

If it's really extended, I just start treating it like IM, with no salutation on either end.

[Anonymous]

If it's really really really extended, I friend them on FB

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All best,
Mary

Hideous. Incoherent. Grammatically incorrect. And meaningless. Completely and utterly unprofessional.

The only way to make it semi-acceptable would "All my best" or, more appropriately, "I send all my best wishes."

[Anonymous]

ok Grammar Nazi, here's the thing about email correspondence. it is not an exercise in proper letter writing. it's more like... a halfway point between phone calls and text messages. if you write emails sounding like you just dipped your quill in an ink jar, you are culturally inappropriate, and therefore, your grammar is irrelevant.

also, bee tee dub, language evolves. who says "how do you do?" anymore? who actually replies to "how are you?" with "fine!" anymore? no one, i tell you. NO. ONE.

people aren't "Fine" or "Doing well" anymore; they are "Good." everything is Good. is that grammatically correct???

[Anonymous]

Thanks,
Joe

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:ok Grammar Nazi, here's the thing about email correspondence. it is not an exercise in proper letter writing. it's more like... a halfway point between phone calls and text messages. if you write emails sounding like you just dipped your quill in an ink jar, you are culturally inappropriate, and therefore, your grammar is irrelevant.

also, bee tee dub, language evolves. who says "how do you do?" anymore? who actually replies to "how are you?" with "fine!" anymore? no one, i tell you. NO. ONE.

people aren't "Fine" or "Doing well" anymore; they are "Good." everything is Good. is that grammatically correct???

Yes, actually it is grammatically correct.