Poll: When writing to an agency, how many lines (inc. greetings) do your emails usually have? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "When writing to an agency, how many lines (inc. greetings) do your emails usually have?".
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Mario Freitas 
Brazil
Local time: 17:59
Member (2014)
English to Portuguese
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| Did you count | Jul 5, 2021 |
So many answers to these numbers. Did anyone actually open some emails to count the lines?
I have no idea, but each email to each client is significantly different, according to what they proposed and asked for, of course.
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Stepan Konev
Russian Federation
Local time: 23:59
English to Russian
| It depends on your device screen layout | Jul 6, 2021 |
Same text can occupy 50 lines when I use my smartphone or 3 lines when I use a wide screen. I use three wide screen monitors and if I expand the email window through all of them, 1 line can be enough.
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I nominate this question for the "Stupidest poll question of the decade" award.
It looks like something generated by a poorly programmed AI, based on a random selection of key words.
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| Other (as many as necessary) | Jul 6, 2021 |
It depends on the agency (over the years I have become more informal with some them), on the reason I’m writing (obviously I’ll be quite formal if I’m requesting an overdue payment than just confirming a quote or a deadline) and also on the language (European Portuguese is quite formal).
P.S. What about direct clients? Will it be tomorrow’s quick poll?
[Edited at 2021-07-06 06:52 GMT]
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| Another poll idea | Jul 6, 2021 |
Teresa Borges wrote:
P.S. What about direct clients? Will it be tomorrow’s quick poll?
What is the average word length in the emails you send to agencies?
- >5 letters
- 3-5 letters
- 1-2 letters
- <1 letter
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| As many as it takes | Jul 6, 2021 |
Anything from:
Dear PM
Thanks
Best wishes
Christine
(How many lines is that? This is even more elastic than 'how many words?)
... to several pages of discussion, attachments and weblinks.
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| The question is vague | Jul 6, 2021 |
It can go from around 3 to 5 paragraphs when contacting them for the first time to just one or two lines when working with them and answering yes regarding my availability for a project.
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Yes/Next week/No, sorry/Here it comes
Chris
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Who thinks of these silly surveys? This must be the stupidest of all.
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Francisco Chagas
United Kingdom
Local time: 21:59
Member (2019)
English to Portuguese
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I make sure to assert my dominance by simply sending blank emails--although I may include a gleeful (or not so gleeful) emoji on the subject line.
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Kay Denney
France
Local time: 22:59
French to English
Christine Andersen wrote:
... to several pages of discussion, attachments and weblinks.
If I have several pages worth of questions or whatever, they go in a word document that the client can then answer directly in.
Or I'll add my questions as comments in the word document for the client to answer using Track Changes.
I keep my emails short and sweet and to the point, because it's rarely the PM I'm writing to who'll actually be answering my questions.
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| ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? | Jul 6, 2021 |
What kind of question is this? Do you really expect a sensible reply?
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