What is the difference in usage between 'please' and 'kindly'.
What is the difference between following sentences :
1. Please issue my salary certificate
2. Kindly issue my salary certificate
What is the difference in usage between 'please' and 'kindly'.
What is the difference between following sentences :
1. Please issue my salary certificate
2. Kindly issue my salary certificate
an interesting question
(usually) They are both polite requests. "Kindly" doesn't indicate how the action has to be performed. (although that's what one might think if you were just considering grammar.
Here the use of "Kindly" indicates that the speaker would consider the action to be very considerate and helpful. (a kind action)
2006no, you're wrong because
*considering your response:
-----------you're talking about the action itself, not the 'request'.
-----------'a kind action', as you said, (from the point of view of 'how the speaker would consider it) is an action that 'has been' or 'is potentially going to be performed' kindly
no, you don't understand. it means the action would be considered a kind action, not an action performed kindly.
*kindly is an adverb of manner (=describes how an action is performed). No matter what position in a sentence an adverb has, its specific function isn't generally affected by it. yes, in a sentence like 'he tended to her kindly and lovingly.' but not in "kindly issue my salary certificate.'
*according to longman exams dictionary:
Kindly is a word which means please, but is used by the speaker when he is annoyed (so it is used 'ironically', in a sense) only sometimes
2006
That's exactly right. Here on the forum when a poster says, "Kindly answer this question for me" the poster is indicating that he/she would consider the responder considerate and helpful for answering the question.an interesting question
(usually) They are both polite requests. "Kindly" doesn't indicate how the action has to be performed. (although that's what one might think if you were just considering grammar.
Here the use of "Kindly" indicates that the speaker would consider the action to be very considerate and helpful. (a kind action)
That's exactly right. Here on the forum when a poster says, "Kindly answer this question for me" the poster is indicating that he/she would consider the responder considerate and helpful for answering the question.
My opinion is that the "kindness" refers only to the kindness of the hearer in carrying out the request of the speaker, and is not meant as instruction about how the action is to carried out.That's exactly right. Here on the forum when a poster says, "Kindly answer this question for me" the poster is indicating that he/she would consider the responder considerate and helpful for answering the question.