To use a - instead of a full stop or comma?

[managedmis]

Is it me, or does this give me a certain je ne sais quoi?

I've started using it in work emails, example:

Hi,

I'll send it to you shortly -

Regards,

Managed

What do we all think?

That's what I thought!

Thanks all

Fill yer bottes with fixing grammatical French errors

Just use ellipsis instead. All the C-suite do...

Sharon, I do that when asking questions...?

Do you think I seem more patient..?
Thoughtful...?
Or just drunk...........?????

YANBU - I don't know what it gives you.

Ugh! That reminds me of a particularly repugnant boss I once had who would sign off emails with "thank-you". A qualified linguist, too.

From memory word and outlook correct it.

Amazing! That would have saved me so much time when I was still working…

It's not the correct way to use it but your an adult - you can do what you want.

@FergusSingsTheBlues sounds more impatient than patient to me! I think it has a bit of passive aggression too.

Zeus, it is "you're"an adult, not "your". You're means you are, the apostrophe is for the missing letter a.

Don't correct somebody on a grammar thread when your (sic) own grammar is so bad.

As I don't know if you know, "sic" means "thus".

Don't correct somebody on a grammar thread when your (sic) own grammar is so bad.

Muphry's Law strikes again.

Don't correct somebody on a grammar thread when your (sic) own grammar is so bad.

I do think the sic was necessary as you spelt ‘your’ correctly 😀

Just no!

I think you’d get away with it in almost any informal notation situation, but not email.

If you have the uncontrollable urge to commit crimes against email, then go large.

@FergusSingsTheBlues
Sharon, I do that when asking questions...?

Do you think I seem more patient..?
Nope

Thoughtful...?
Nope

Or just drunk...........?????
Well, an ellipsis only has 3 stops...

Fill yer bottes with fixing grammatical French errors

Merci !

In that case, it should be vous êtes.

Why wouldn’t it be ok in email - most are very informal.

I think the dash creates a liminal space for the reader's own thoughts to fill. You don't really want to do that after 'I'll do it shortly' since the reader's thoughts are likely to be 'no you won't' or 'what a cock'.