I am about to send an email to someone that is formal in nature, although I have already met with the recipient multiple times at work. Normally, I would say "lol" or "haha" after a sentence when I want to ensure that the recipient understands that I am saying it in a funny manner so it isn’t misconstrued. Any advice?
How to express humor in a formal letter/email?
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"Humor" and "formal", in a letter, do not go together.
If you feel the undeniable urge to include humor in a formal letter, then do your audience a favor and don’t insult them by giving a clue to the obvious, that it is indeed funny.
If your humor requires a cue then it’s not humorous and doesn’t belong in the letter.
misslabeled is correct…as usual.
I would keep it serious in nature rather than injecting humor in it…
save that for another time.
well for humors sake,this is a link to a formal humor letter http://bestof-web.blogspot.com/2010/02/i-dont-give-damm.html
The advice is not to do it. If it’s formal you don’t want to use anything that could be misconstrued. If it’s formal, it’s formal.
If it is a formal letter (business or legal) don’t inject humour unless you are very certain it "reads well". Use of lol or ha ha is not formal.
But, having said that- I’ve put some pretty hilarious lines in some work correspondence that went over very well. So, if it’s good and you know he/she will "get it"- go for it if it is daily correspondence.
Again- not formal business or legal stuff.
Yes, keep your humor for another time. Humor and a formal letter to not walk hand in hand, you need to be taken seriously
Humor doesn’t belong in a formal letter. The reason that "lol" or "haha" doesn’t look right is because it isn’t.