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“Sitting on my head”, is an off-the-cuff way of complaining, which suggests stressing me out to harass to tease about something. Imagine, an individual who has agreed to try to do you a favor but he won’t be able to do it unless you are physically present in front of each other. You could not expect him to try to do your work if you tell him once and leave him so that he may do it when he gets time is called as ‘Sitting on someone’s head and make them…
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We all have an unconscious habit of writing the phrase, “Please Advise” in the e-mail communication, which is the most common phrase. It affects the way of a clear & efficient message. Few of the users use this phrase in their opening and closing sentences. Examples, Please advise on how to proceed. If you have any questions or clarification, please advise. For above examples, below are the revised sentences, Please inform us the process to follow. If you have any questions or clarifications, please let us know. Some users use advise…
Continue Reading.....“You Know” is used within the same way as “like” or “humm” is used in an English speaking culture. It’s a tick, a hiccup. It is used by a person for a very quick pause to gather their thoughts. For others, it’s just a display of undisciplined speech. Linguists call interjections like “You Know” and “like” and “humm” and “I mean” and a large number of others ‘filler’ or ‘discourse practices’. It is like an unconscious way of a pause in the middle of a sentence as the person speaking…
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“Pulling my leg”, is an idiom occasionally used to mislead someone playfully or tease someone or to tell someone something that is not true as a way of joking with the person. In simple words, anyone who has been telling you un-believable lies is possibly been ‘pulling your legs’. Some examples are… Oh, please stop crying, I was just pulling your leg! Stop pulling my leg, I do know you lied to me. Is he really angry with me or he is just pulling my leg? For those who are…
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The Comma has a power for greater than its humble looks might suggest. We are understanding Comma Courtesy in Business emails. A misplaced one can change the meaning and tone of the message, which can cause confusion and undesired consequences. So let’s go over the two most important uses for commas in business emails – 1) Comma and Salutations – A business email starts with salutations. And salutation ends with comma, right? Wrong. In business emails, the most important formal way of ending salutations is with a colon (:). So…
Continue Reading.....Flaming Email is a kind of expression in emails that directs angry, critical or disappointing email. ‘Flaming’ is what people do when they express strong opinion, without holding back emotions. i.e. writing email with an anger & express the same emotions in email. Writer to avoid such kind of mails by following below mentioned some of the points. Flaming is an online act of posting insults, often laced with profanity or other offensive language through internet. Polite respond to all emails : In most of the instances, this is all that…
Continue Reading.....The writer may take e-mail for granted by writing Long Emails. However effective e-mail communication is as much a skill as anything else. When used effectively, e-mail can be a powerful tool. However, one of the top e-mail inefficiency is message length. One of the top reasons your e-mail is not getting read is because it is too long. Writing long emails doesn’t mean you are getting more work done. As people are fighting to get inbox empty, the last thing they want to do is read a multi-page tedious…
Continue Reading.....Come again is an Informal phrase use to ask the speaker to repeat the same if you did not understand or hear them. Do not use this phrase in a formal context, as it may have an alternate meaning or may be misunderstood. It is an American slang, short hand for a longer & more polite form, “Could you please repeat what you just said?” ‘say again’ or ‘could you please say that again?’ Example : What did you say, come again? In British English it is replaced with,…
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