Dear Professor Tambovtsev,
Address terms are quite variable in English in general, and email is
even less 'rule bound.' I think the emerging consensus is that once a
conversation really gets going, especially if you are responding with
a short reply, that one can simply make the contribution, sometimes
without a signature as well (this varies across purposes of email,
varieties, how well you know someone -- I never put salutations in
emails to my wife! -- etc., and is ripe for a variationist study!).
BTW, thanks for starting the thread, it's been interesting.
Best,
Scott
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 02:52:15PM -0400, Yuri Tambovtsev wrote:
> From: Yuri Tambovtsev <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 14:52:15 -0400
> To: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Let us thank Damien Hall (Variationist List owner) for his
> patience
> Dear colleagues! I am sending my message again because I noticed it was cut. = In fact, I completely agree to Angus, who wrote = "So it is with statistical tests. SPSS and SAS look so smooth, researchers think that all they have to do is plug their numbers in and out comes the answer they want. And so they do, regardless of whether the relevant
> assumptions apply." = I am quite happy that some linguists and other scholars may realize that. Actually, it was my point and my goal, when I started the discussion on the use of statpacks. Many of my students do not think twice but "think that all they have to do is plug their numbers in and out comes the answer they want. And so they do, regardless of whether the relevant
> assumptions apply". The fact that so many people answered and overflooded the list just shows that the question is proper. Let us thank Damien Hall
> (Variationist List owner) for his patience. THough long, the discussion is really fruitful. When I started a discussion on the essentials of TYPOLOGY on LingTypList the owners just kicked me out from their list. May I ask native speakers of English (British, Americans, etc)? I am not a native speaker of English. I have recently noticed that people on the list seldom use "Dear Chris, dear Dan, dear Claire, etc." Is it not polite any more to address as "dear plus his or her name"? Yours sincerely Yuri Tambovtsev
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