That's not what i mean by formal. In my experience email communication falls into short forms quickly to save time. Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel
-----Original Message----- From: Deepak Shenoy <deepakshe...@gmail.com> Sender: silklist-bounces+nikhil.mehra773=gmail....@lists.hserus.net Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 23:13:19 To: <silklist@lists.hserus.net> Reply-To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject: Re: [silk] outdated words in "Indian English" On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 11:02 PM, Nikhil Mehra <nikhil.mehra...@gmail.com> wrote: > Possibly. But the entry of informal contractions in formal situations causes > loss of effect, i feel. > Strangely I've gotten involved in corp life recently (consulting contract) and it seems like formal conversations are even more shady, with terms like PFA and FYI and top posting and truncated sentences, and I'm speaking of bankers here, a species that takes a long time to evolve...
