Wednesday, November 03, 2010

Thanks but no thanks.

B: How come nobody uses thanks as a valediction here? For some reason I am not comfortable with all the variations of regards we have going on. I mean best regards, warmest regards, kindest regards I feel like you are kind of mocking me with all this regards. Are you mocking me?

C: We don’t use thanks because we speak English and a thanks is not a valediction and yes we are subtly mocking you.

Proper or not I need a judgment call on signing off a letter or an email with …

Thanks,

B

Hasn’t the use of thanks as a sign of farewell been used widely enough to gain acceptance as a proper valediction?

1 comment:

Rocketstar said...

I use Thanks ALL of the time in voice and in emails.