Signing off at the end of a letter can be done in a variety of ways. Theres's the impersonal:
Regards,
the terse (but false):
Yours,
the insincere:
Sincerely,
the obsequious:
Respectfully,
and the even more craven:
V/r,
("Very respectfully"). The erudite Latinist may try:
Vale,
("Be healthy"). To a dear comrade one might venture:
Fondly,
in a relationship where the out-and-out:
Love,
is far too daring. But my personal favorite closing is simply the optimistic and ambiguous:
Best,
Sometimes an inadvertent typo renders this as:
Beset,
which is, alas, all too often accurate in these hectic times ...
TopicLanguage - TopicHumor - TopicPersonalHistory - 2004-08-30
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