Special stories, tales, thoughts, explorations and rants from Amanda Kelso
Trapped in the CLAUSet
Fellow GSP friend Zach Slow along with Jelly Donut released a very funny Christmas related 3-part video series last week that mimics the style of R. Kelly’s “hip-hopera,” Trapped in the Closet. It is actually weird to think of Santa Claus having a sex life, but worth watching. The rest of the series is here.
Recently, an article from The New York Times discussed the etiquette surrounding e-mail sign-offs. One man quoted in the article mentioned that he disliked the sign-off “Best,” because he felt “he had been snubbed.” This article got me thinking about how I sign-off my own e-mails, as I can often write upwards of a 100 e-mails a day to both professional and personal acquaintances. I was disappointed that the article did not list a wide array of sign-offs that could be used, so I searched for a list of sign-offs to reference if I wanted to spice up the endings of my emails. And while the article was widely mentioned by blogs, and some great suggestions were listed in the comment section here, I couldn’t find a decent list of suggested email sign-offs, so I am compiling one here. Roughly categorized by type of sign-offs, this list is certainly not inclusive, but could be used as a way to diversify if you are getting bored with the same old sign-off.
The formal sign-offs:
The informal sign-offs:
The UK style sign-offs (apparently care should be taken if you are not from the UK in using these):
The close friends/family/lovers sign-offs:
The foreign language signoffs:
And the super informal and silly (again, care may be warranted when using these sign-offs):
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