Email tone and status: !s, friendliness, 'please', etc.

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Do the following things in email tone lower status?:

Exclamation marks
Friendliness
Saying 'please', or 'it'd be great if'
Saying 'you don't have to do this, but...'
Saying 'sorry' (e.g. 'sorry to bother you')
Signing of with 'Thanks!'

My impression is that they don't, because I haven't seen people who do this as low status. But they've all been people who are clearly high status anyway, due to their professional positions.

It'd be great to get any pointers on this, as I worry I do all these things. Sorry if there's already a discussion of this, I did try looking! Thanks!

Do the following things in email tone lower status?:

Exclamation marks
Friendliness
Saying 'please', or 'it'd be great if'
Saying 'you don't have to do this, but...'
Saying 'sorry' (e.g. 'sorry to bother you')
Signing of with 'Thanks!'

My impression is that they don't, because I haven't seen people who do this as low status. But they've all been people who are clearly high status anyway, due to their professional positions.

It'd be great to get any pointers on this, as I worry I do all these things. Sorry if there's already a discussion of this, I did try looking! Thanks!

They can usually be identified by explicitly demanding apologies or at least angling for them.

Grammatically, this sentence means "If you demand apologies, that is a way for you to identify these people", but I think that you meant "They can usually be identified by their habit of explicitly demanding apologies". Passive voice can be tricky.

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