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Interesting. In the US culture in which I swim, many funky flourishes are accepted. Perhaps East-coast banker culture is different, but my impression here is that an overly formal tone is usually seen as more risky than informality.
But I don't think I was trying to solve a tone issue. More that some of the hard work of writing is choosing the organization of the ideas and chat bots offer an endless supply of speedy solutions to this. Knowing this can change how we write.
Do you worry that using ChatGPT to refine the tone of your emails will result in you losing somewhat your own tone?
not really because I don’t have to write professional emails all that often in the first place. I think the greater issue with regard to my situation is that as a teacher, I feel compelled to write compositions that conform to the writing conventions flavored by the system — which may be at odds with what I consider good writing. case in point: my countrymen seem to like adverbs, which I think weakens one’s writing. so to a certain extent, I have sold my individuality to the system haha. but I don’t actually mind since I have little aspirations of writing my own fiction and stuff. I’m happy enough writing compos that will serve my students as well as the random pieces to share with the good folks at SN
I think differently about this. When it comes to work emails, I quickly dump whatever’s going on in my
mind and turn to ChatGPT to refine it to a more formal tone.
I have been called out when I tried to inject my funky personality into previous emails. So I don’t think people at work will appreciate me not toeing the line. Also I think if I finish writing emails faster, I would have more energy for the real work that is educating my students