Re: Option in US & Europe

From: Arthur Hagen (art_at_broomstick.com)
Date: 06/14/05 

Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 13:11:38 -0400

Walter Roberson <roberson@ibd.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca> wrote:
>
> - "Pls" and "u'r" are not used in formal communications
> and "u'r" in particular would seldom be considered acceptable.
> ("Pls" might be acceptable in some less-formal business
> communications.

You can't get much more formal than Telex, where PLS is still valid.
However, I doubt that Sabyasachi Ghosh has any Telex background, based
on the rest of his posts.

The main point is to not use abbreviations outside the fora where they
are acceptable. Even if UR and L8R may be acceptable in SMS messages,
don't use these abbreviations anywhere else.

> In a message in which you are appealing to
> potential employers, "u'r" would be considered the worst
> of these points by a fair degree: a lot of people would
> be willing to overlook phrasing such as "I'm having" but would
> be turned right off by "u'r". I suggest you immediately
> discard "u'r" from all of your public technical communications.

In my opinion, it marks someone unfamiliar with formal communication,
and who probably is a child of the SMS generation.

I was more concerned with the last paragraph which sounded rude -- like
he was giving us the privilege of giving him information. The addition
of "if pls" did not help. At the very least, the sentence has to be
constructed as a question.

Regards, 

-- 
*Art
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