Sarah,A question without a question mark, but then that bit of punctuation would seem too tentative for someone in leadership while apparently a "Please distribute" is too demanding-sounding.
Could you distribute.
And such is the way language and grammar evolve I suppose.
[And Bill White calls himself the lord of summa minutiae!]
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Dear TSO,
I write scores of these things in a week, and one can be both polite and make clear what one wishes. The point is, few people take the time or the effort.
shalom,
Steven
I take it Sarah did not reply, "I think I could. Would you like me to?"
Funny. As it turned out Sarah wasn't above using the word "please" as in "Please see the opportunity below."
Not to over-analyze it (too late for that!) but it seems with corp-speak you can see "please" if it is an opportunity but "could" if it's more a chore, with the task of forwarding a note being thankless and no "opportunity" for Sarah.
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