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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
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Hope you understand

Hi Friends,

This is an unusual question, so please bear with me.

I wrote an important email to an important person, but after finishing it I added 'hope you understand' and then signed off. Hope you understand .... will they assume I am questioning their intelligence and be offended because of that? My intent was not that, though. By 'hope you understand' I meant hope you understand my position. Is it commonly understood this way, or is 'hope you understand' always interpreted as something negative, like you're questioning the person's capacity to understand?

Some insights would help, since I am afraid I'd offended this person. That would be disastrous for me.

Please help.

Thanks,
Jon
  

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Anonymous will they assume I am questioning their intelligence and be offended because of that? No. Assuming your letter contains an explanation of your position, it will be understood to mean "I hope you understand my position", as you intended.

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  • Anonymous will they assume I am questioning their intelligence and be offended because of that?
  • No.
  • Assuming your letter contains an explanation of your position, it will be understood to mean "I hope you understand my position", as you intended.
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Anonymouswill they assume I am questioning their intelligence and be offended because of that?
No. Assuming your letter contains an explanation of your position, it will be understood to mean "I hope you understand my position", as you intended.
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thanks for your help. I hope you're right. I am so stressed out about this.
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Don't stress. No native speaker of English (who isn't looking to be a jerk) would be offended by your phrasing. In fact, in this context, your closing has the subtext "I hope I've been clear enough."
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