The more informal letter cut the length by half, included a personalized greeting, and used informal tone and punctuation (i.e., “We want to work with you!” and “Good luck in the new year!”).

Finally, the third issue: purpose. The purpose of your email or presentation may dictate either a formal or informal tone.

Next week’s expanded informal meeting between President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar is expected to set the tone for further negotiations and assess the progress made ...

Training AI on social media, AI researcher at Hugging Face Dr. Sasha Luccioni says, will teach models slang and human jargon like “BRB,” giving it a more informal tone.

The informal tone, paired with the president's casual use of the Crown Prince's first name, stunned many online, with critics accusing Trump of embarrassing the US on the world stage and cozying ...

Using a full stop in texts could be giving away your age, an expert has suggested. Noël Wolf, a linguistic expert, said young people – aged from 13 to 28 – were rewriting the rules to “shift” the ...

As China’s population continues to age, the country must increase the number of people paying into the system. But many workers in the informal sector aren’t interested.

Despite this increasingly informal tone, Biden's Scranton appearance maintained a strong focus on policy matters. Without directly naming House Speaker Mike Johnson, he addressed Republican rumors ...

What is tone? How and why would you use it? Bitesize explains with examples from ‘My Rival's House by Liz Lochhead.

What is tone? How and why would you use it? Bitesize explains with examples from ‘My Rival's House by Liz Lochhead.