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dastgir

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Res. All,

What does "Kindly appreciate" means here -

Kindly appreciate that we don't do this work.

Is this a common phrase.

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Gulam Dastgir
 

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It doesn't actually mean anything, since "Kindly appreciate that we don't do this work" is the same as "We don't do this work". It is an old-fashioned and obsolete commercial usage.

A lot of these old usages survive in India although they have disappeared elsewhere. I suspect it is because many Indian people need to use English but fear that they lack fluency. Rather than risk being wrong they hew to the old forms.
 
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