Hi Anon Now it seems as if everyone is writing: Hello Dolly or Hi John - with no comma. In modern English, the stress is on less punctuation. For example, it was formerly Mr. (in BrE), but nowadays, it is Mr (without period). However, in

I specifically remember learning this punctuation in grade school and high school: Hello, Dolly. (Hi, John.) I remember learning to put the comma after a casual opening, but if it was "Dear" or "To", etc., you would not put the comma there

Kooyeen wrote: Maybe I am too dumb to understand that, but isn't all that just like saying "Carpe Diem"? ... For yesterday is but a dream, And tomorrow only a vision... Yeah, you're completely right! So don't tell me now that you don't

Ruslana wrote: By the way, to state a topic. What do you think of this approach? Would you try to follow it or do you think it's a madness? Well, I would, if only I understood what it is about! LOL Maybe I am too dumb to understand that, but

I like that quote very much. Thanks, Lawyee!

If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son! --Rudyard Kipling And what is more, you can turn back at any

Hi people! Once I came across this one in a Russian book. It inspired me somehow, and I'd like to share it. Maybe this will give you at least a smile. Look to this day! For it is life, the very life of life, In its brief course Lie all the

That's all she wrote has nothing to do with women per se-- it is a fixed phrase meaning 'that's all; that's the end'. Here's what Word-detective.com has to say: Dear Word Detective: What is the origin of the phrase, "...and that was all she

In business letters (or formal letters, and in any kind of letter, really), we should make it a point to know who we are addressing. Of course you can use "Dear Mr. or Mrs.:," but your readers may lose interest. Why will they lose interest?

Quangtrungvtv wrote: Marius Hancu wrote: APPLICATION LETTER RESPECTFULLY ADDRESSED TO : VXK COMPANY. I knew your company hired the electronics and telecommunications engineer . I have to found about operation of your company, I