For many, many years now, I have signed off all my emails to the people I care about with the word “warmly”.

I can’t remember where I picked this up from. It was not my own invention. But at some point, I must have received an email from someone with a “warmly” preceding their name, and felt with great pleasure some of genuine warmth baked into the salutation. Being a human monkey, in true monkey-see, monkey-do spirit, I wanted to pass these warm vibes on! And hopefully I have.

For me, “warmly”, is akin to saying “with love”. And why would we not end all our communications in that way, including our professional ones? I don’t know. But I do know that warmly has worked well for me, rather than the more common (and to my ears, less warm and loving) sign-offs such as “cheers” or “best” or “regards”, as well as the many different forms of “yours” (sincerely, faithfully, truly etc.).

The problems with off-the-peg sign-offs though, including “warmly”, is that through usage they somehow lose their presence and emotional charge, becoming a kind of empty placeholder, a nothing.

So just for fun, I thought I might come up with a few new sign-offs, starting with this one: SPLGE-R.

Continue reading: http://stevewasserman.co.uk/my-splge-r-sign-off-explained/

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