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Feb. 12th, 2021 01:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I never feel more like a robot who learned to communicate with humans by reading out of date badly translated manuals than when I have to write a work email.
I mean, all my written (and spoken) communication has a little of that flavor anyway, but in private casual conversation it (hopefully) comes across as quirky, rather than offputtingly strange. I think it's because work emails require me to leave out most of the affectations I add to my speech/writing that make it seem like the strangeness is a deliberate choice, rather than an unavoidable fact.
Using the word "alas" in a work email is probably unprofessional. Alas.
I mean, all my written (and spoken) communication has a little of that flavor anyway, but in private casual conversation it (hopefully) comes across as quirky, rather than offputtingly strange. I think it's because work emails require me to leave out most of the affectations I add to my speech/writing that make it seem like the strangeness is a deliberate choice, rather than an unavoidable fact.
Using the word "alas" in a work email is probably unprofessional. Alas.
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Date: 2021-02-13 04:51 pm (UTC)