The colleagues in my office often send email starting with "Please kindly". Are the two phrases a bit redundant?
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The colleagues in my office often send email starting with "Please kindly". Are the two phrases a bit redundant?
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Strictly speaking, "please" and "kindly" do serve separate purposes. I can demand that you kindly do a certain task:
The intent is to dictate how you should apologize. Prepending "please" is me politely asking you to do something:
Combining them signifies that I am being polite and you should be polite:
In the context of office chatter, I would interpret the original intent of the phrase to mean, "I am asking nicely; don't give me attitude." As it is now bordering on a cliché, I highly doubt anyone is putting much thought into the phrase or its meaning and they are simply being polite.