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It’s like if we casually used “esteemed” or “the most respectable” when emailing people.
“Sup fuckers, […]”
Grew up in Spain, spent the past 20+ years in English speaking countries,
It still creeps me out that I have to write “Dear” on emails.
Like, we haven’t even met.
Same but with German. Just anglophone things.
This got a sensible chuckle out of me but I haven’t seen anyone use ‘Dear…’ in a professional setting. It should lead with the names of the main addressees and maybe a pleasantry.
‘Morning, Jim and Bob,
Did you get that thing I sent ya?’
For a printed business letter, put their contact info in the top right, and address them with their title and surname, followed by a colon. For example,
Professor Thorne:
President Kennedy:
Father Milligan:
Ms Helgastottir:
Yeah I’ve been a corpo for over a decade and can’t recall any dear fishy emails except when dealing with overseas production in China and Vietnam.
And don’t get me started on “yours truly”
For a while, I opened my cover letters with “Hi.” like I’m fucking Windows 11 looking for a fresh install at their employment.
At this point, you should probably try to introduce yourself like a LLM … or just have an LLM write it for you.
The middle management types reading it love LLMs, and they’ll instantly find the writing style comfortable and familiar.
When I learned business letter writing, they didn’t. I realize things are a lot less formal now, but I still wouldn’t write “dear x” in a business setting.
Be sure to stand out when sending your resume by starting the letter with “Dearest …”
My dearest Melpert…
I had never even thought of it as a term of endearment, it was just “start a letter this way”. Now that’ll be such in my head!
When I noticed it I switched to “Greetings” or “Good [time of day]”
a term of endearment
endearment
endearment
Aloe love,
- me when sunburned
