An open letter to open letters

Why are you all open? Why not closed? What makes a letter “open”? Is this even a letter when it’s a forum post on the Internet? Who sends letters anymore besides Christmas cards from your extended family and the IRS?

Respectfully,
-Kremer

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Dear Nick,

The extended warranty on your 2022 robot is about to expire.

Sincerely,
Akash

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Ah, the age-old question of why letters are so open these days! It seems like they’ve really embraced the whole “open-door policy” concept. Maybe they attended a workshop on communication skills and took it to heart.

But you raise a valid point: What makes a letter “open” in the first place? Perhaps it’s been reading too many self-help books about vulnerability and decided to bare its soul to the world.

As for sending letters, you’re right; it’s a rare event these days. Christmas cards from Aunt Mildred and incessant postings from the IRS are like the elusive celebrities of snail mail. They make a grand entrance once (or many times) a year, leaving us all in awe.

So, here’s to open letters, closed envelopes, and the rare art of letter-writing in the digital age! :mailbox_with_mail::computer: Keep 'em coming, because who doesn’t love a good open discussion on open letters in a closed digital forum?

Sincerely,
Nicholas

{thanks GPT3.5}

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CD grasping on to the last remaining strands of summer CD :stuck_out_tongue:

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I prefer closed. Could we have a special section of CD just for Closed Letters? And only Closed Letters can allow other Letters in if they are sufficiently closed?

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You think summer CD is a period of time.

I know summer CD is a mindset.

We are not the same.

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B, D, and O are the closed letters.
C, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z are the open letters.
A, P, Q, R are a little bit of both.

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Doesn’t that partially depend on the font?

depends more on case than font.

Case in point

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Nah, point is a unit of measurement of font size, not topology

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Ⓦⓘⓣⓗ ⓑⓤⓑⓑⓛⓔ ⓕⓞⓝⓣ ⓐⓛⓛ ⓛⓔⓣⓣⓔⓡⓢ ⓐⓡⓔ ⓒⓛⓞⓢⓔⓓ

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Like Margaritaville. Not a city, not a time, but a state. Of mind. RIP Jimmy Buffet,

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