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TexasTowelie

(111,958 posts)
Tue Oct 19, 2021, 08:33 PM Oct 2021

I might need to change how I close out emails and letters

Over the past few years I have used the following closing when sending informal correspondence.

(body of text)

Regards,

My name


Lo and behold, I was typing a message today and ended up with the following:

(body of text)

Retards,

My name




That gives my message a completely different meaning.
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I might need to change how I close out emails and letters (Original Post) TexasTowelie Oct 2021 OP
We all have those days dlk Oct 2021 #1
I only use "Regards" as a closing Sherman A1 Oct 2021 #2
I use "Cordially". Sarcastically. niyad Oct 2021 #3
Ooopsie! sheshe2 Oct 2021 #4
Voice-to-text can really screw up a message. keithbvadu2 Oct 2021 #5

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)
2. I only use "Regards" as a closing
Tue Oct 19, 2021, 08:41 PM
Oct 2021

when it is one of those messages that I am really thinking "You lousy two bit Son of a .........." other than that I use "Sincerely"

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