"Hope all is well"
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- fredddddd
How often do you get emails with "Hope all is well" in them?
I got a few in the past couple days. It sounds negative. There must be a better way to write the sentiment.
- ernexbcn0
"Hoping you are still clean"
- GeorgesII0
"Hope you still have money for the gas, brah"
- Peter0
Aah, long gone is the fine art of letter writing.
Or simply wishing that a receiver is doing well.Gone is "I trust this letter finds you well",
to be replaced by 2s, 4s, and a few gr8s for good measure.Gone are the "With sincere regards,";
"k thnks bye" is now in.
My mistake, it's now "k thnx"And good riddance. I don't want to adhere to any old grampa styled writing, and I'm way too busy 2 b arzed 2 rite t fll wrd. I'm busy.
- My favourite: "krgds", which I assume is busy for Kind regards.eoin
- LukeO0
I say 'hope all is well'!... never thought about it coming across negative, though I see what you mean... it's a question that is asking for an honest answer though, good or bad.
Try 'all good bro?'
- Peter0
Pft. "Hope all is well". What's their angle!
- Horp0
I tend to say 'I hope you are well'. But only once a week to any given person, and not to friends or in social correspondence.
For some reason I can't articulate, this seems to be the better option at the start of relatively impersonal work related emails. If possible I try and start with something more relevant sounding like 'I hope you got on well with the project you mentioned last time we spoke' or etc.
I had a business partner once who's foibles drove me nuts and one of them was that he always wrote
Dear XXX,
I hope you are well?At the start of every email. I don't know why it drove me as nuts as it did but it did drive me absolutely nuts. He'd cc me on an email to a client and as soon as I read that I'd be face-butting my desk in despair. For a start, its not a question, so why the fucking question mark, and secondly, if you roll out a stock phrase every time without variation in every email, then it just becomes and irritating fence of letters that carry no empathic value at all, for the reader's eyes to climb over before they can digest your actual message.
He'd email people ten times in one day and always put 'I hope you are well?' at the top.
He also used to touch pregnant women's bellies as a social gesture (clients, friends and acquaintances I mean, not strangers) and that drove me nuts as well, but that's another story entirely.
Also, he looked like Krusty the Clown.
Its probably quite apparent by now that he used to annoy the absolute shit out of me.
- set0
I don't see much wrong with it.
What I do abhor though is when you ask someone how they are and they reply with 'not too bad'.
Not TOO bad? You negative little arsehole.
'Yes bad, life is bad but I suppose not TOO bad, I'm literally JUST managing not to commit suicide'
Not too bad. Ugh.
- set0
Also, while I'm at it, people who think that 'of' follows 'could' in a sentence like 'it could of been you'.
Instantly makes them look like they eat at McDonald's and watch Jeremy Kyle.
- Fax_Benson0
surely a quick
"I'm very well. However, I'd like to know why you prefaced this correspondence with such a trite phrase. There must be a better way to write the sentiment."
would get to the bottom of this.
- NonEntity0
Fuck you, Candy