Comments on: Please find attached…

By: sissy_sue

sissy_sue — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:30:10 +0000

Eric, maybe the “too much time of your hands” crowd find “Attached please find” unbearably irritating. Do you talk this way? Then, why would you write this way? Why not simply write “My resume is attached,” or something similar that doesn’t sound as if English is one’s second language. Just because this stilted and ridiculous usage has been around for years doesn’t make it readable or right.

The phrase makes me want to vomit.

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:39:26 +0000

So pathetic… Just relax, don’t make things up and just use “please find attached/enclosed … “, otherwise you’ll be perceived as a weirdo. Especially in business communication.

By: Milton

Milton — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:18:10 +0000

Could I use “follow attached…”?
Thanks

By: PATHFINDER

PATHFINDER — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:26:56 +0000

i agreed with John GET A LIFE BIG BOYS

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:39:34 +0000

Odd how the “Too much time on your hands” and “get a lifer’s” have the time to read all this and comment. Anyway, this was very helpful. I don’t like the phrase either, but it had been the only way I could think of to avoid starting yet another sentence with “I”, “I have attached”. The ideas in this forum provided a good solution for me. Thank you

By: Jean

Jean — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 03:06:33 +0000

Yeah, makes me feel blind, trying to find an attached document.

By: Erwin

Erwin — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 19:19:42 +0000

I was searching in google if is correct.

http://www.lomasnuevo.net

By: Amit

Amit — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 17:58:10 +0000

Yeah Me too

By: scoopie

scoopie — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:03:16 +0000

Thanks for the discussion. I often use this phrase and then today I was thinking about how dumb it sounds and if there was an alternative.

By: Whitecho

Whitecho — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 18:30:26 +0000

Totally agree. The whole phase just doesn’t make sense to me at all.