links for 3 July 2007 - Are people more intimate via email?
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why do my email correspondents so often conclude “take care”, when they don’t really care if a double-decker bus kills me on the way home? The seeming care contains a lack of respect which is infuriating.
Is it any different to the cordial greeting ‘How are you doing?’ or saying ‘Bless you!’ when someone sneezes?
I grew up with ‘Take care now’ being part of a number of parting phrases.
Its a social handshake. Pointless but necessary.