Americanism and English in correspondence aspect difference
The correspondence which the commercial English correspondence (Business or Commercial English Correspondence) is refers to when transaction uses. In the US, commonly used Business writing, it including correspondence, telegram, telephone, fax, report, postcard and so on.
English and the Americanism have certain difference in the correspondence style aspect, for instance the header and the name, the correspondence form, the wording, the ending guest polite talk and so on differs from. Generally speaking, the British correspondence is more conservative, many English like with the old style epistolary style, the word usage cutting blocks for printing comparatively officially, but the American correspondence language is angry, has the vigor, the form is also simpler. Therefore when we write a letter when the object is British or its old colonial country, must use standard form English Queens English; If writes a letter the object is the US or the US sphere of influence local zone time, must use the American English. Certainly, Britain's-like language culture also had the change in recent years, but generally speaking, both's difference was very obvious.
The commercial English correspondence, requests generally with the typewriter or the computer prints neatly, left side each line of openings vertical, is called perpendicular or Qi Toushi (Block style), American commonly used this kind of form; Each section's first word shrinks, is called shrinks the type or the denticle type (indented style), British commonly used this form. The perpendicular duty and signs in the left side page margin demarcation line, this kind of form, in extreme respect working efficiency's American Corporation, has used generally.
The official commercial English correspondence must inscribe the receiving corporate name and the address or addressee's name full title, the duty and the address in the name place above, is called in the letter the address (Inside address). In the letter the address mode of writing also has perpendicular and shrinks division the type, perpendicular and said that the US the type each line of compound, shrinks the type or said Britain the type flinches in turn each line. However, the author notes, recently in the Britain business letter letter the address has not shrunk in turn, is as if same as the American type. In addition, is also popular in the US one kind of ordinary addressee address the mode of writing, is in correspondence Inside Address, guards a door the trademark and the street name abbreviates falls.
Must use the polite expression in English correspondence, the most universal polite expression is Mr, Mrs and Miss (uses in unmarried female). English often after masculine name uses Esq. (Esquire abbreviation), but slowly is also changing to Mr in the trade. Mmes. (The Madam complex form), uses in above two women. Messrs (the Mr complex form) uses in two above men, either uses in the company which or the association two above men compose. In the British type English letter, Mr, Mrs, Messrs, does not condense the period, on the contrary tends to the progress free Americanism instead adds abbreviation period like Mr., Mrs., Messrs. .