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Hi, would you say people nowadays rarely write letters/emails not for the work just for communication?
Also, is it a pattern that people start with things like "I hope this letter finds you well"?(As for this, is it a real thing or would you consider it as a social etiquette or some greeting exchange that cannot mean much in its literal meaning? I guess here I'm just wondering how a native speaker feels about it as "how are you" in daily life, as I checked last time, barely means "how are you")
Hi, would you say people nowadays rarely write letters/emails not for the work just for communication?
Also, is it a pattern that people start with things like "I hope this letter finds you well"?(As for this, is it a real thing or would you consider it as a social etiquette or some greeting exchange that cannot mean much in its literal meaning? I guess here I'm just wondering how a native speaker feels about it as "how are you" in daily life, as I checked last time, barely means "how are you")
Also, is it a pattern that people start with things like "I hope this letter finds you well"?(As for this, is it a real thing or would you consider it as a social etiquette or some greeting exchange that cannot mean much in its literal meaning? I guess here I'm just wondering how a native speaker feels about it as "how are you" in daily life, as I checked last time, barely means "how are you")
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I would say it is less common for people to write letters/emails unless it is work related but no one would find it weird if someone did. About the “I hope this letter finds you well” a lot of people don’t use this phrase but they do ask “how you are doing” or “if you are doing well”. “How are you” is used as a greeting for strangers or people your not close with.
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