kontextmaschine:

what’s the signoff to letters, where you’re like

[Signoff,]

Signature

Printed Name

anyway my dad used “Very Truly Yours”, which I appreciate as both invoking and undercutting with absurdity the ritual form, I’ve been decreasingly ironically using a simple “Yours”

My elementary school in a “favored quarter” suburban district that went from rural to commuter professional when I was in school spent just an absurd share of instructional time teaching us how to write letters.

Now that I think of it this was the plurality share of our Japanese writing classes too, because people born in the ‘80s still grew up under educational apparatuses designed to prepare us to write letters.