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FT专栏作家凯拉韦:我刚刚进行了一些研究,将近来读者给我写的电子邮件与2000年的一批邮件进行对比,结果令人吃惊。人们开始背弃过去乱糟糟的不拘礼节,变得更拘礼数,措辞亦更优雅、更友善。

I gazed at this message for some time. The fact that this young man was going to be late was of little interest; the fact that he had used one full stop, two commas and one semicolon to tell me so was of very great interest indeed. If a 26-year-old sends elaborately punctuated text messages, does this herald the end of an era? Could it be, I wondered, that the lower-case, hey-there, c-u-l8r age of business language is over?

最近,我收到一位同事的短信:“我,很不幸,开会要迟到一些;地铁晚点很久。”

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