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I like the way Sandy1 signs off. I sign off Sincerely (even if I am not), fondly (for my business correspondence because it has consonance with my name), Die And Go To Hell (when I am mad at someone/something).


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I use "kind regards" for about everything.

Daniel

 

 

The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.

 

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It depends on the circumstances. I'll admit that "Very truly yours" or "Yours Truly" sound a little weird for business communication (especially if it's the most common type of business letter I'm writing, which is for a complaint...).

I think I'm going to crib "Regards" or "Kind Regards" from whoever it was that posted that.

I don't tend to write a lot of personal correspondence, and when I do it's just stuff like a birthday or sympathy card and I'll sign my name and maybe add a brief note.

Of course for SCA [society for Creative Anachronism] communications (such as sending in event reservations) I get really crazy and formal and try to figure out what a 13th C. Anglo-Norman woman would write, which includes whatever Saints' Day it is). And because those are *sort* of business letters I tend to sign them with something like "I remain your servant and the Society's". I used to address the envelopes to the other person's persona name, in care of [modern name], but given how screwed up the USPS can be stopped doing it a number of years ago.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

"It's very nice, but frankly, when I signed that list for a P-51, what I had in mind was a fountain pen."

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I think I'm going to crib "Regards" or "Kind Regards" from whoever it was that posted that.

 

what does this mean?

Daniel

 

 

The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.

 

Gramsci

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what does this mean?

 

More than one look at you or more than one benevolent look at you.

 

Or were you asking about the meaning of "crib"? Please clarify.

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More than one look at you or more than one benevolent look at you.

 

Or were you asking about the meaning of "crib"? Please clarify.

I was not familiar with using crib as a verb. But now I looked it up. -_-

Daniel

 

 

The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.

 

Gramsci

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Family: "Love,"

 

Freinds/Personal Acquaintances: "Cheers'"

 

Biz/Professional: "Sincerely," somtimes "Regards,"

 

Mortgage Company: "A Pestilance Upon Your House,"

One of us is copying the other :-)

Amos

 

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For casual, everyday correspondence I prefer to sign off,

 

"As Ever,"

"God whispers to us in our pleasure, speaks to us in our conscious, and shouts to us in our pain."

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Fell out of my chair laughing when a Georgia lawyer sent a demand letter signed off with

 

"Govern yourself accordingly."

 

Maybe in my response I'll sign off with

 

"Go buy yourself an accordion"

 

Do you think it conveys the gravitas I so desperately want this person to perceive in me?

Qui tam pro domino rege quam pro se ipso in hac parte sequitur.

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Fell out of my chair laughing when a Georgia lawyer sent a demand letter signed off with

 

"Govern yourself accordingly."

 

Maybe in my response I'll sign off with

 

"Go buy yourself an accordion"

 

Do you think it conveys the gravitas I so desperately want this person to perceive in me?

 

Hell, yea.

 

I like to sign off "Get it?"


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For all work emails - Regards.

 

I had a friend that passed away years ago that was a Civil War History buff like myself. So we would end our letters like they did at that time:

 

"I remain Sir, your humble and obedient servant"

 

How times change.

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For all work emails - Regards.

 

I had a friend that passed away years ago that was a Civil War History buff like myself. So we would end our letters like they did at that time:

 

"I remain Sir, your humble and obedient servant"

 

How times change.

 

The way things are going, the standard closing for a business letter in fifty years will be "Whatever."

James

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... Die And Go To Hell (when I am mad at someone/something).

 

"Your little fiend" is nice, too.

 

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