always rings twice' - happens to be a film and probably happens only in the films. The garish red post box has become a piece of rarity.But along with these are also gone those etiquettes of letter writing? Are there no prescripts for the electronic mails? Or should we ever care or follow one, if it existed in the first place? Well, let’s take an example. There was this lady who had some issue with her newly bought Digi Cam and had e-mailed her young cousin whose cognizance in the field of electronics is - shall we say the 'Any problem solver'? So this cousin of hers mailed back the reason for her issue as well as the solution ending his emails with HTH and then With Love.
Our lady with the issue who was no short than intelligent herself understood the underlying
cause for her problem as well as the solution and fixed her Digi Cam - however she had that nagging abbreviation HTH lingering in her mind - so nagging that she mailed her cousin especially to know what is HTH! Well - Hope that Helps was not helpful after all for our lady! Current day conversations, chats and less formal emails have become more like short hand - making them more and more cryptic.In all likelihood email etiquettes are needed only when the desired parties are so nit picky about it. The rest of the world can live with cousins and the lady with issues by communicating with HTH, BRB, B4 or NE1. And if you are not way too eager to live behind the bars, probably you should be the cyber law abiding email writer too!
I still remember some of the very last letters that I had written, when I was in college and email was not that popular. I had written to my first cousin who was in the US of A - I think about 3 to 4 full pages of the function of her parent’s 25th wedding anniversary which took place at Chennai. I had written her every single conversation that we had had that day - despite the fact that the news reached her by phone the same day, I took all the effort to put it in black and white and mailed her. Well it just made me a happy man. Etiquettes or not, writing long mails/emails have always been my cup of tea!With More Thoughts...
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Letter Writing is an art that's lost in our generation, just like the philately(stamp collection), fountain pen and all things that go with it. To explain concepts, we have now moved to bullet points and Microsoft Visio (not simple hand-drawn diagrams). I cherish the memories of letter exchanges between me and my thatha(grandfather), my father's who used to optimize all the space they could get in that single card or 3pg inland letter. While we somehow make up with emails, the personal touch is lost. So much lost that people ask yo forward because they lost the first one. Imagine the pain, if a paper post was lost unread and the person asks you to write and send again! Sure, electronics has saved us there☺ Also, multiple copies to different people which saves multiple copies of the same memo or circular carried by a peon to different desks and receiving signed acknowledgements(now read receipt)☺. Yet, we all can do something or other to keep the spirit of writing alive. Like you have in this beautiful blog. Cheers👍
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