Kind regards

[roobarb]

re this post yesterday, I read it out to my colleagues at work, I don't open lj there but can see relies in my email. I'd only read my bit and The Tweenie apologised. She thinks it's set up on her web email link (she's got rid of it in the staffroom). It was standard fare in her last two offices

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[davidoflondon]

Well I don't want to be mean but you post the most wonderful things and I love this post :)

[roobarb]

LOL

[bunnyk]

It's a dreadful way to end an email. It means nothing - well, other than "I can't be arsed to think of a way to close this email so I'll stick any old twaddle in". It's why I got a bit frustrated at TKC. :-/

The two examples you cited are fairly good examples of things my eyes tend to glaze over when I see them. 'I don't want to be mean but..' immediately followed by something incredibly mean and hurtful, and ditto for rude. I've learned to ignore both.

[roobarb]

TKC? what's that mean?

[martinoh]

With respect - oh bugger, that's another one, isn't it... :-)

Although I find "Kind regards" to be more typically a US valediction, it's not clear to me that there's anything inherently worse about it than there is in the accepted British use of "Yours faithfully" in formal correspondence.

[roobarb]

but yours faithfully measn something to the effect that I'm being as faithful to the truth as I can I'd think

and kind regards is used all over within the college where I work and I'm seing it more and more

[martinoh]

The origin of 'Yours faithfully' is generally taken to be a contraction of '(I remain)your faithful servant'; truth has long played second fiddle to platitude :-)

[texasts]

"Kind regards" was rife at The Big Clam. And in several languages as well!

It wasn't widely used in the US (Not at my company anyway) until we went truly global.

I don't think too many of us even saw it after a while. Just another standard closure. One I never used.

Even saw it when someone was chewing my ass once or twice!

Great series of posts, m'dear!

[randeknight]

Since it doesn't mean anything except 'this is the end of my writing', I omit it entirely and just put my name at the bottom.
And if it's someone who knows me well, leave that out too.
And why not? Unless your name is like Yusef Faithful, it's unlikely to confuse anyone.

Now to get rid of those other useless bits of language like 'Please' and 'Thankyou'. In the words of Edison Carter, "Asking is only polite demanding."