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Insincerely, perhaps.
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If I want to make a complaint about something I never swear. I will e-n-u-c-i-a-t-e very carefully (to make sure the person understands every word), in a tone that makes it clear that they DO NOT want to make me mad. I am also told that I usually sport a beatific smile that makes it that much more scary.
Can you teach me how to do it? Please? I'm usually able to hold it together for a bit, but if they continue to stonewall me (last time this happened I was talking to the administrators of my health insurance) I really lose it. I mean, not to the swearing point. But I do get personal. And I agree -- not the best way to handle these things.
You're my hero.
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emanuela>Sincerely yours... seems to me too friendly.
to me "sincerely" is entirely neutral, and takes the tone of whatever preceded.
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Emanuela, what if you simply omit the 'yours'?
You will have just said you've had proof of how rotten the person is and that you're glad to end contact with him.
"Sincerely, Emanuela" should indicate that you meant everything you said, without "belonging to" the person.
This may have been what tsuwm meant, as well. Sorry I couldn't tell for sure.
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>that may be what tsuwm meant... yes, but note that the "yours" in "sincerely yours" and "yours truly" type constructions is usually meant simply to indicate "me, myself or I".  I don't think these are used much, for example, in love letters (but who writes those any more :).
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I don't think these are used much, for example, in love letters (but who writes those any more)I do, sweetie. 
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love letters (but who writes those any more)
I do, sweetie.ME TOO, she shouted happily!
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But, please, which is the correct signature after such a letter?
The letter writer put nothing after the body of letter except the signature. I think the omission was intentional, and effective.
PS - If you want to know how to propose marriage by letter, let me know.
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- If you want to know how to propose marriage by letter, let me know. Spill, please! This I've gotta see.
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Emanuela: Re: "uncomplimentary closings" The possibilities for uncomplimentary closings are virtually endless and can run the full ranges suggested in this post. A fairly simple, rather mild example might be -- " I trust that even you, Mr. /Ms ----, can understand the full import of the foregoing and can further understand that, in such circumstances, I now remain, and ever shall quite happily remain so,
Your former acquaintance,"
zzzzzzzzzzzzz"
This is a mild and understated version. These are great fun to write. In those glorious days of epistolary communication ( of which Sparteye's letters are an example), before the tel and tech inventions, the complimentary (or UNcomp...) close was itself a minor art form, and a fertile field for making that final, clever, memorable point, whatever its nature.
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