Monday, March 28, 2016

What That Email Really Meant

Hidden zingers...

Hmm.

Ah, email. Everyone hates it, yet most of us use it, Minda Zetlin reports on stumble.com.

Some of the most effective email parries and thrusts are delivered in the form of passive-aggressive phrases -- the kind that can impose an obligation, express ire, or even deliver an insult in such a nice and nonchalant way you won't even know what hit you, Zetlin wrote.

Here's a list of passive-aggressive email phrases and what they're really saying:  http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1lpZyK

For a new report on the decline of email among mobile's youngest users:  http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/24/email-is-dying-among-mobiles-youngest-users/

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