Me too. ", Quick and smart, plus is "human-based"! So Ive taken to using Thanks, Dana every.single.time. I only had to explain it to him once. So Id let this one go. I think the phrase Please advise means Define my problem, then solve it for me. As such, I think its a pretty irritating/lazy way to ask for help. It is like personal space. How do you feel about emails that say, Just wanted to let you know that blah blah blah.? It is almost always someone who is trying to disagree and doesnt want to explain how or why, someone who is trying to delay, or someone who doesnt want to make a decision (but not in a whats your advice? way, more in a I dont want to deal with this way). 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. Improve your English! Whats the verdict? I agreed upthread, but since people were disagreeing here, I wanted to +1 the passive-aggressive vibe. Its not unreasonable to say that stuff, except for Can I ask you a question? because (a) YOU JUST DID, and (b) I am categorically unallowed to tell you you cant ask! I thought, Maybe Im wrong? Please advise, like a lot of things, is one of those generic polite statements that can become really snarky depending on the context and the person using it. No. :D Like We had someone call from a company trying to sell us a bridge, so I took their name and number and told them someone from the bridge purchasing department would call them back. Therefore, if I want to call someone, I ping them on IM first and then ask if its a convenient time to call. I also like Would love your input for similar situations. I often use please advise when faxing physicians to clarify a prescription. But sometimes the reason people say it is because there are line-jumpers. ", a real person to guide me, instead of some AI :)", The best feature of this service is that the text is edited by a human. Well, to be fair, I was trying to derail his political career. I loved please advise when I had to ask clients what they wanted me to do next. You need to add a payment method to get our special promo , Enter your email below to get instant access to the first Chapter of our Ebook, We're so happy that you liked your revision! if you so wish. Its quite amazing. Shes lovely, but I dont like the phrase. I gave it another try, coming at it from another angle. I think this might be part of why I dont have a problem with it. It doesnt seem mean to me at all. The original model was created digitally in Nomad Sculpt . Dana. Drugs are bad. Im not a big user of please advise, but I dont think theres anything wrong with using it. Many translated example sentences containing "please let me know" - French-English dictionary and search engine for French translations. I also get please do the needful and gentle reminder. In Taiwan, the one that was odd to me was addressing people as dears whether in the email salutation or in person. 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. For example, I can write, "The doctor advised me about taking supplements" or "I advised him to eliminate the angry tone in his writing." Some usage experts accept advise in place of inform or tell. Option 1 likely will result in this behavior but Option 2 will accomplish this.. I write that, too. Exactly! But I think the overall tone of an email can speak to its urgency or importance. I dont use the phrase for one of the reasons Alison mentioned: Its too formal for my taste. But that whole make sense? stuff irked me. I am having a hard time with the fact that someone is having a hard time with the word please being used. I once had a relatively high ranking political official email me and ask me why I was trying to ruin his career. Top Customer Service We are here to help. He told me it was standard while he was in the military. I'm definitely trying to be polite! so once they agree to speak, i send the email to all the speakers with all the additional tasks, and say thank you in advance, as an acknowledgement of all the things i just told them to do. Although I usually prefer let me know what you think since I know please advice grates on some people. Its work. Im rapidly coming to that conclusion as well. if (w.addEventListener) { Your feedback helps us improve our service. It totally fell out of favor in the UK (and never did come over to the US or Canada), but because of timing, it remained a popular phrase in Indian English. Ive also been using it fairly often as well. If you feel the organization is still interested in my application, please let me know as soon as possible and we can discuss how best to move forward. Then, if you ask me to please advise as to whether I agree with your proposed next steps, I am indeed happy to advise. I read it as deferential. Its actually pretty nice, IMO I hate when someone calls me unexpectedly and wants me to look into some issue while Im in the middle of something (and hence most of the time I dont answer the phone if Im not expecting a call). Is it annoying? This! One day I went in to talk to her about a security issue. Is that better? Privacy Policy and Affiliate Disclosures. But they wont articulate any of those things you just have to guess. I used to have to deal extensively with someone brusque, arrogant, demanding, and (based on her emails) borderline illiterate, and she regularly used plz advise. Those additional three keystrokes were apparently just a bridge too far for her. Me too! (without going into details, many of my co-workers have 4 or 5 or more phone numbers). I have since found it an excellent catch-all phrase for any occasion. Please let us know your preferences is the most popular phrase on the web. Im not religious and Im certainly not a Scientologist but the one thing they got right is that they insist that people know what a word means. Like the President will be here presently? I hate please advise! Prefer please let me know your preference please advise which one you prefer 20%OFF ,,,, I always read it like shes yodeling at me. It just sounds sojerky. We dont have a parking procedure. I resisted the urge to bang my head on her desk. If its someone who works for me, I dont want to be notified of a problem without their thoughts/suggestions/proposed solutions. I suspect part of the reason for our culture being this way is that we have a fairly open floorplan, so if we were to routinely talk at our desks, it would be disruptive. Tried to get ebay and paypal details in order send an invoice to me. This happens quite frequently in my current job and its quite normal. })(window, document);Cookie Policy(function (w, d) { How should I handle your request? That comes off as way more snarky/passive-agressive than please advise. Which one do you prefer? To be fair they can just put Agenda to follow, but none of the invites I receive had any follow-up agenda sent. Also, just the sheer volume of email I got made it necessary to adopt some kind of triage system, and people who plainly asked for what they wanted from me always got priority. Have you had a chance to look into this yet? and Any updates on this? also work for some people. This is now off of my plate until I hear from you (tagyoure it). Exactly. Emails were coming in all day long. My peeve is no subject line Our HR generalist pretty much NEVER uses one in her all-employee emails, and often her emails are just a pdf with no explanation of their content (usually a flyer of some event) so I have to download it to see if its anything at all relevant to me. I was thinking this too. ****-----------------------THE BASE:This listing is for one *large* toony African wild dog foam base to make your own fursuit or mascot costume. I wouldnt ever want to imply that Im telling my boss what to do. Now, someone in IT has figured out how to make all emails related to a conversation *poof* from the entire email network when something like this happens, so nobody has the email anymore to reply to all. Makes sense to me; Im asking for advice from my boss. I also use it infrequently. Is that better? 3. + Read the full interview, TextRanch has been really helpful in improving the flow and repairing the structure of my sentences. ), Oh, and our organization likes to close emails with Very Respectfully. If you wish to keep things light, you may also get rid of the formalities to make your addressee feel at ease. I almost never use it but I did a couple of weeks ago, because Hello? })(window, document); 2023 TextRanch, LLC. I admit Ive never heard of this interpretation of that closing. I dont like gentle reminder either, but I think prefacing this kind of request with Just a reminder without the gentle is not a bad idea. + Read the full interview, Zubair Alam Chowdhury, Technical Support Specialist, TextRanch has helped me to improve my written skills as well as to communicate more naturally, like a local English speaker. 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Can I help whoevers next would be perfectly grammatical, thoughhow about that? Are they presenting you with new information about something thats typically your responsibility? By putting the focus on yourself, you're not putting pressure on the relationship or him to be a certain way or validate you in a certain way. Running errands: I have to get the needful done. Do something with it.. 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! I dont think the IM itself is what AMG is referring to its when the person IMing then wants you to be the one to call them, even though theyre the one who wants something. Ok, I know its old but If we choose "not applicable", it means we don't own a car which can be important information for the . In mine, please advise is typically used when someones pretty irritated with you. Ha, this post brings back memories. This comes from past experiences where I had situation X and thought I had solutions A or B. Yeah, its more please give your overall thoughts or opinions on this matter versus a specific question. My grandmother (who was born in 1912 in Oklahoma) once said at a family buffet dinner, My lands, shouldnt we serve the menfolk first? because people were lining up to fill their plates. Theres something about the tone of it that feels too deferential or uncertain to me. Yes, I have lots of thoughts about this. Leave this page open, and your corrected text will appear as soon as it's ready! or 2. I think we could write Please let me know which you prefer or What do you think? and offend nobody. Please let me know when it completed or Please let me know when it complete? How do you feel about putting those words in bold instead? I wouldnt mind that at all. Please let us know your name. Any help would be . or Request you to note the dates and let us know way forward. Because it was sitting in my barn / shop for over 12 years!! I kinda think its a bit bitch eating crackers myself. There's no difference in meaning, but the former is a bit formal and the latter is more common and informal in everyday speech. You must be a pretty powerful person to single-handedly derail someones political career. i think i use all the examples described so far, and its not really my problem if you find them annoying. Just say, "Please let me know when it's done." March 31, 2012. Especially if Im just showing up to help a busy desk (I work at a public library), it seems a lot more annoying to just plonk down behind the station and stare expectantly at the line until someone comes over to me. A nun in grammar school taught us math. I suspect that it just didnt translate well in to English. Maybe Im doing it all wrong, but it works for us. Thats the thing, though. In which case the Please advise is their action item. Because if this meeting is all about you asking me about something and Im totally unprepared for it, I will just say, I will have to look that up and get back to you some other time. and you will have just wasted everyones time. The. Another is when I get an email that contains only call me. 2. If I put FYI instead, they know they dont need to reply to me. In order to post your question we need your email to notify you when the response will be available. And I definitely wouldnt instruct others not to do it, since its really just a personal preference on your part, not a rule thatthey should be following in general. 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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