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I match what the other does to me. That said, I am a little annoyed with the concepts of greeting and signature within an email. Thanks to the "From:" and "To
by Xurinos 15y ago
I match what the other does to me. That said, I am a little annoyed with the concepts of greeting and signature within an email. Thanks to the "From:" and "To:" headers, this is redundant data. A lot of people write emails as if they were writing snail mail. Yet, simultaneously, those greetings and signatures do sometimes convey a certain formality because of my experience with snail mail; depending on my mood, I will either chuckle at the "Dear Sir" or read the contents in a more businesslike tone. I wonder if these parts of the writing structure will fall out of fashion in another 50 years.
- jeangenie 15y agothe address on a letter isn't a substitute for a salutation; I typically start with a simple "Hi" or "Hello."
- tricolon 15y agoI disagree. The salutation sets the tone of the body. Just by reading "Dear Sir", I know that the body will probably be impersonal, yet polite. If I see "[Name]," I know the body will be professional and to-the-point. "Hi [Name]" sets a friendly tone, often followed by a request. If I do not see a salutation, odds are that the body was written in haste (or in reply to an existing thread).
- corin_ 15y agoWhen I'm writing snail mail I write the recipient's address, and my own, right at the top of page one; then I still use greetings/signitures. The signiture is used partly as a formality, partly as an indicator of warmth/personalisation - it's not meant to be for the reader to go "oh, so that's who wrote it".