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From: deb5@ellis.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff)
Subject: Re: International Language.
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In article <D2nuKx.M19@discus.technion.ac.il> tsoul@techunix.technion.ac.il (Andrey Tsouladze) writes:
>Daniel von Brighoff (deb5@ellis.uchicago.edu) wrote:

>: Unfortunately, "one" has a very formal ring to it and so tends to
>: be avoided in American speech.  A German friend of mine, educated
>: in Britain, once excused himself from missing an appoinment by
>: saying "One should check one's calendar before one makes an appoint-
>: ment, shouldn't one?"  Perfectly correct, but laughable all the same.
>
>What about using "Dear one," to begin a letter, instead of "Dear 
>Sir/Madam,"?   ;-)

Why not?  It would certainly seize the reader's attention in a way
that "Dear Sir(s)/Madam(s)" or "To whom it may concern:" would not!
-- 
	 Daniel "Da" von Brighoff    /\          Dilettanten
	(deb5@midway.uchicago.edu)  /__\         erhebt Euch
				   /____\      gegen die Kunst!
