And grammatically speaking, not all requests for a response have to be phrased as a question. I just love this). Please note that 1-4 phrases are more formal than phrases 5 & 6. Because signing off with NOW WHAT PLEASE HELP MEEEE would be inappropriate. Its lazy. The editors' comments are helpful and the customer service is amazing. I like the sentiment; the phrase just seems so grammatically tortured that I wonder how and why its caught on. I want to know the context of the meeting so I can prepare for it. (I hate picking a closer the most (in email-writing), I think its related to aspergers-y symptoms but it could just be a social anxiety thing). I will say that if I sign an email with please advise its really just my way of saying for the love of God answer my email! This means that you can drop the adverb "please" and simply use "let me know if you need any help" instead. You know, I think everyones got their pet peeves with email. Ive worked in three different offices, and this phrase was used by nobody at two of them, and then by virtually everybody at the third one. As in, Attached is the xyz report. We wouldnt say Please advise out loud, because we know how it sounds. It sets my teeth on edge. It really is the nude pump of email etiquette. If you're on the conservative side, you may want to just take my word for it. (without going into details, many of my co-workers have 4 or 5 or more phone numbers). Please advise. Which would be annoying. Not only does it annoy me because the person could have just called me, but I also now have a pit in my stomach, dreading whatever situation it is that requires a phone call without any written discussion. + Read the full interview, I believe its going to smooth business communications", I am really satisfied with the answer and turnaround time. The latter has a different meaning. (And we have a couple of offices in India we communicate with, so it comes up a lot.). And kind of hilarious. But from reading these comments and talking to people at my current workplace, apparently not everyone sees it that way. Heeeeelllllloooooooo? I do appreciate it when people are willing to take context into account, so sometimes an opener that acknowledges, hey, I know youve been working really hard on X so this might have fallen off the radar is appreciated, but I really do want to get you what you need! Ill confess to using please advise in place of certain expletives. Simply state the query, such as. That does happen to me on occasion. I think we could write Please let me know which you prefer or What do you think? and offend nobody. Don't use the phrase, "Hope this helps" in an email. Early in my career I had a boss who would act super confused when I made a mistake. But people tend to not like such things. + Read the full interview, I started to use TextRanch when I began to learn English. No, its not just related to Aspergers! A complete search of the internet has found these results: Please let me know which one you preferis the most popular phrase on the web. Back-office folks are often out of touch with what client relationships mean. But I do thank them afterwards too. Although I usually prefer let me know what you think since I know please advice grates on some people. I often see Please advise abused to avoid doing either of the above! If I was having the chocolate tea pot situation I would write, "Please let me know which option you prefer." I feel like more time is wasted when people try to save time on words and instead use "please advise". Are they presenting you with new information about something thats typically your responsibility? I find this thread fascinating. ", Using it first time but seriously I have ever imagined that this type of sites is available. :). JMO of course. I actually had a conversation with my boss about this last week. Do they tend to throw you under the bus? Oh FFS we havent even closed this topic yet and youre diverting the attention to something else? I only had to explain it to him once. But that whole make sense? stuff irked me. TBC, I only use that when Im really looking for general thoughts, and dont necessarily have a specific question. Just as Im used to people replying with something like Great, thanks! or Ok, no problem rather than acknowledged, Im used to people ending emails with what do you think? or is it ok if we do X? not please advise.. I had an obnoxious passive aggressive manager once who would scold you for some nitpicky infraction and then give you a syrupy Thanks for all you do to send you on your merry way. Well, its one example. Juste tre sr de me faire savoir quels animaux vous prfrez la caisse. Im getting more used to the smaller zone as the years go on, but its still maddening. On can ask questions in an email and never get a reply, so I make sure they realize I expect a reply. Im good at sussing this out now, but for the first year I was in this role, I found it really challenging. I dont mind it. which is so dumb, like Im thanking them for giving me work? ", Quick and smart, plus is "human-based"! Could you please advise? I feel that, if I leave this last sentence out, my email will sound bratty without it with an underlying message of, Theres a problem with your request, DO SOMETHING. Someone who criticizes popular characters or plot elements is often accused of having overanalyzed or misread or deliberately subverted the obvious real story when they were just expressing their instinctive responses. Request you to note the dates and let us know the way forward. The same thing happened at my old job as well! Didnt know this was such a well known meaning! People arent usually willfully distorting what they read or hear in these situations. If I have one grievance to file about business email, it would be that I wish people wouldnt use words that they dont understand. Second is and I swear this is just coincidence and not meant specifically towards you how Americans cant get that other English-speaking nations slang that sounds perfectly fine to them. Thanks! My bosss boss would end certain emails to me with that phrase. THIS! 2. Please let us know if gets his speech back. Im pretty sure all 200,000 plus employees at my company use it regularly! I picked up the doubt thing from a really awesome math professor I had in college who would ask does anyone have any doubts? after going over something on the board. Can you give me an update on registration From the Cambridge English Corpus His preferred option is theory of mind ability, which underpins processes of cultural learning and cultural accumulation and transmission. :). Its quite amazing. Just ask a direct question or make a decision or leave me alone, but quit spouting off please advise and then wait for me to fill the silence. Then is it natural to say "Let me know when best suits you?" See a translation 1 like oldgeezer 17 Jul 2017 I heard sleeps used all the time in the US I think its a weird phrase. I frequently use that phrase. I was already going to do the needful. Yes, my grandmother who was born in the late 1800s as a young woman worked in the field all day and then at lunch break the men stretched out under a tree while she and other women served them lunch and then everyone went back to work. I wanted her to speak to the newbie staff members and ask them not to park in that spot. I think Ive caught myself doing this a few times but I realize it before I send it out. I dont use it all the time but will use it occasionally when she has dropped the ball again and pulled a Charlie Brown* on us. So I just describe the situation as briefly and clearly as I can and say something like please advise or Id appreciate your thoughts on this or Id really appreciate your help (leaving with the above nightmare unstated!). It drives me REALLY batty. I admit that Im sometimes inclined to send a not-so-gentle reminder by the time Im sending the xth reminder. Ive been trying to figure out what it is about phrases like this that bugs me. I use please advise or let me know. I want the recipient to know I need a response and that it is not just an fyi. Unfortunately, if I dont use those phrases, I dont get an answer/response. If I am sending our a reminder, I usually just type just following up on the message I sent to you last week about A, B, and C or i just wanted to see if you had a chance to look at that e-mail I had sent to you the other day I do agree that it is hard to find a way to remind someone about something when you are just not sure if they had forgotten or if they are just swamped and are dealing with higher priorities. It is Something That Is Not Done in our culture (which tends to be very email/IM-focused). . It openly pisses people off. I explained it a third time, very slowly, and very carefully. Of course I fixed my husband a plate when he was seeing to the kids, or otherwise engaged but otherwise, why would a man not fix his own dang plate. Thats fine. *taps foot*. Like the OP says: The addition of please advise feels demanding and bratty and of course redundant. Earlier today I used it, as I was supposed to send a part out on a specific flight. But obviously it struck a nerve with me, because Ive been thinking about it all day. It does sound stilted, but not bratty and redundant to me. I use please advise sometimes with my boss always when Im expected to make a judgment call that Im not sure how to handle. But I think the overall tone of an email can speak to its urgency or importance. Maybe its worse, but I use This is a reminder that and then This is your 2nd reminder notice that and finally This is your 3rd reminder that.. if you so wish. And Id hope that someone would cut me some slack should I unknowingly pick the wrong set of words. Im rapidly coming to that conclusion as well. 1. It reads as abrupt to me. You are incredibly annoying and childish. I gave it another try, coming at it from another angle. Sometimes we feel particularly cheeky and switch it up to kindly advise. In the end, because she was unable to understand the issue I went to speak to the owner of the business, who immediately sent out an email clarifying the parking procedure. complimentary close! Heh, I have seen it used that way, now that you mention it. Get perfection for short pieces of text in just a few minutes. Hmm, please let me know how to proceed seemed more formal and curt to me. Clearly Im gong to advise you dont tell me how to do my job. I stopped that one pretty quickly. }; I think Ive probably written Thanks so much in advance too but more when its part of a longer exchange where the other person has already suggested the thing Im now saying Yes, please do that to, not just cold. Or if she explained something to you one on one and you seemed iffy, shed ask if you have a doubt. I dont typically send reminders because I figure you are a grown-up and you can (should be able to) manage your own deadlines. Yeah, I never know what to do when you get something and Thanks! isnt really appropriate as a reply, but there isnt really much to say in reply. is not business-like as you said. This additional time is also helpful when you have more interviews scheduled with companies that interest you. Sometimes Ive had people reply with Do I need to know more? or Is there more? and then we can have a conversation about that, rather than me give them a long monologue without checking in with them first to make sure they want to know more. Feel free to let me know in the comments! Same goes for meeting invites received out of the blue with no brief description at all. Thanks a lot for editors. let me know your favorites. But I usually blend the can you do X question with kindly requesting so it reads, Can you kindly read X and do Y and get back to me with Z? You could use for your client, but I don't feel it's needed for your in-company superior (unless you're in a big company and sending to executives). I thought text is edit by machine, but it's real editor.Stunning! I am having a hard time with the fact that someone is having a hard time with the word please being used. This will save me on average X amount of time per day. Dont read in meaning or tone that isnt there. FWIW, the overuse of the word like is probably the most annoying Americanism. Why am I having to ask you for the same thing multiple times??! Or we haven't found it but, so let us know when you discover it first. Editors on TextRanch are super helpful! This drove me up the wall because she frequently appended it to requests that were not the recipients responsibility or anything theyd agreed to do. Please advise, is much more concise than the alternative of listing all the options out. Its gold when paired with and kindly revert. Because that essentially says, please do this, then undo everything you just did. Traduccin Context Corrector Sinnimos Conjugacin. But if they are generally fine as coworkers, then youre better off not reading into how ever they phrase their emails. We can either 1) switch to white chocolate 2) continue with milk chocolate or 3) form a team to identify new chocolate options. Like. If someone whos not approved to send emails to the list has a legitimate reason to send out an email to everyone, that person can contact the relevant admin, who will vet the request and then send it on to everyone if its deemed appropriate. I had a coworker that used to ignore my emails about half the time so one day I asked her why. When its just one delinquent person I usually begin with Hey I hate to be a pest but. PizzaSquared * April 13, 2015 at 3:15 pm. ", Textranch corrects my mistakes and tells me what is wrong in the sentence, and they responds quickly.". Cant think of any examples right off the bat but it definitely doesnt fit for some emails! Terrible. If I have a specific question, and I know the recipient is either really busy or prone to scanning emails, Ill usually state the question and then bold it. } else { Because it was sitting in my barn / shop for over 12 years!! I live in the south. Make sense? Doesnt bother me much after that. Friday, 1/28: 10am - 12pm EST; 2pm - 4pm EST. The former is what you usually say when you make yourself known to somebody. If its just an FYI, and theres no action, I dont put that, or any other question. I might IM and say, Do you have time for a quick call? If the other person says, Yes, then I call THEM. I dont think you do actually need a closer every time, whether you mean a final sentence or something more like sincerely. 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