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Piak

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Have you ever seen this word "Goodself", I saw it many times but don't know exactly its meaning. Most of the time, I saw in the documents of Singaporean, Malaysian, and Indian letters. Could you give me the exact meaning, please? I have some examples herein for your interpretation.

1. Reference is made to the teleconversation between your goodself and our Ms. Wan recently.

2. We are pleased to award the above-mentioned work to your company for the sum of S$ 200,000.00 as agreed between goodself and the undersigned.


Thank you in advance.
Best regards,
Piak
 

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The word you are talking about is actually two seperate words; good self.

The phrase "your good self" simply means "you", but it is an extremely polite and formal way of saying it.
 

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It's not used in current British English nor, I think, American. It means, as Red says, yourself. I wouldn't use it in corrspondence with BE orAE speakers, but it is used in Indian English.

:lol:
 

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tdol said:
It's not used in current British English nor, I think, American. It means, as Red says, yourself. I wouldn't use it in corrspondence with BE orAE speakers, but it is used in Indian English.

:lol:

The last time I saw it was in one of those scam letters about 20,000,000 dollars from Lagos, Nigeria.
 

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I hope you gave them your bank details. ;-))
 

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