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> Requests that are phrased as questions should end with a period. > Would you please send this report to the person indicated on the cover. Wait, really? IAN
by jwilk 9y ago
> Requests that are phrased as questions should end with a period.
> Would you please send this report to the person indicated on the cover.
Wait, really? IANA native speaker, but I don't think I've ever seen such requests without question mark.
- SerLava 9y agoCall me illiterate but that would be seen as either a mistake or as intentional rudeness. We structure instructions as requests for the sake of politeness, and using a period here would come across as a very subtle mockery of this. In context it would imply some level of disdain for the recipient's right to turn down the request.