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It depends on the context.

• Between coworkers, absolutely one-line emails are not disrespectful. Internal emails are more or less just text messages in longer form, or that should be saved for posterity, or provide long-term action items that may need to be revisited. Announcements should be a bit more respectful in tone, but conversations can be casual.




• Between a provider team and a consumer team, it depends on the office culture; I've sent both very respectful emails to internal clients and also very casual ones, depending on the setting and personality involved (I'm a software engineer, and it's generally more acceptable to be "unprofessional" like this in software engineering).




• Between a company and a client, you need to be respectful always, unless you have a very good rapport with your client, and even then you should show some decorum.

Sounds like you're in the first situation, so feel free to be a bit more casual in your emails. Don't use unprofessional language (e.g. swearing), but you don't have to litter your email with wordy greetings.

Again, this varies GREATLY from culture to culture.

In a German email, The Subject may contain vital information, and not be repeated in the body of the email.

In India, the email could include personal information.

In the USA, brevity is often considered polite.

In Japan, if you screw up the honorifics, you will be in for trouble.

From the UK, you may get an email ending with "Cheers!"

Learn what is polite for the culture you are addressing. What may be considered rude in one culture may be polite in another culture, may be overly formal for another.

Shorter (hah!) version:

In the US, longgg emails are, in fact, supercilious.

Cultural norms are strange things; it's professional to simply be aware of the prevailing cultural norm.

Your speculation is correct:

In the US context, your example format is basically "wrong".

• In the US, emails are just like texts or a chat room




• In (say) France or Germany, they are (often) more like letters

So in the US,

• It's totally OK to often completely forget about - totally - the "formatting" of "letters" which those among us old enough learned in school. So, the "greeting part", "signature part" and so on - often just forget about it, as in a text




• One word replies (notably "Understood") are totally OK




• Even addressing a senior boss, you can still keep it extramely brief. (Perhaps just adding a bare "Thanks Sir, Fattie" at the end.)




• Definitely forget forever your "I hope ..." introductory sentence :)




• You can treat it as if a chat room

In total contrast, dealing (in general) in France or Germany, you can write "actual letters".

Regarding asia (say, China, India) ... things are too fast paced for me, anyway to form an opinion either way! Regarding Japan, it's inscrutable.

Hence, to answer your questions,

Do I have valid reasons to consider these kind of emails rude

You are totally incorrect. They are not rude.

However, I find ... [your cultural expectation]

You're in a different country.

"Your" convention is rude, surprisingly!

Cordialement,

Fattie

As several of the previous answers have stated this is largely culturally driven. Generally, in the US, brevity is appreciated and is itself respected.

While this is a cultural value and therefore not entirely subject to rational analysis, let me offer a rationalization for choosing shorter emails.

I typically get over 100 emails each day (not counting spam). My boss gets over 1000! If each message was full of respectful chit chat that has to be read and digested to extract the action items he'd never be able to keep up, and important items would be overlooked in the mass of verbiage.

But in response I sometimes receive one-line responses without any courtesy content. I am well-aware that emails aren’t necessarily like letters, and some warrant short, quick responses. However, I find one-line replies more suitable for a text message and I expect the person I am contacting to share the same level of mutual respect.

Have you ever thought of it in the opposite direction? That the reader is simply too busy to dissect each segment of your email to answer?

My thought is I would love 1 line emails. In my professional experience, I found the shorter the email, the better. I try to answer every email in just one sentence and if I send an email, I write it in a couple of sentence. Anymore, I found the individual does not read it.

So in the future, try to write out an email with just a few sentences, if you can. In your sample, you don't need anything but the person's name, the matter addressed, and then a signature closing.

X,

Do you want me to submit task 123?

Thank you, csg

Phone: 123-123-1234

email: 4321@example.com

"Some slogan from your company"

Or when you answer emails, maybe,

X,

Yes, proceed with task 123.

Thank you, csg

Phone

Email

Slogan

Thank you for your question. :P I hope you are well.

First of all, good for you for taking the time to ensure you are being respectful.

The short answer is that abrupt emails are not generally indicative of rudeness on the part of the sender. The ubiquity of electronic communication has driven a stake through the heart of most people's willingness to engage in the pleasantries which characterized written communication in the lower-tech past.

It remains however, rude in general, to always be focused on yourself when interacting with others, and abrupt messages devoid of pleasantries are certainly one potential sign of this. Context will generally provide the rest of the clues as pointed out by @Ertai87 in his/her answer.

I am of the habit, like the OP, of always making an effort to compose messages in a format very similar to the one he/she provided:

• greeting (with recipient name)


• past/current wish (had a nice weekend, having a good day, are well, etc.)


• matter


• invitation of response / other followup / seeing you / etc.


• personal wish (my best wishes, etc.)


• sender name

This was a conscious switch I made many years ago. I find it to be very mindful: it increases my awareness of what is outside of me generally, and specifically my correspondent. I find that it is those few seconds where I am writing something routine are the ones where I can really think about the recipient getting the message.

The best part is that I find what you write really is not simply boilerplate, but actually the truth. Yes, you choose much of it from a small set of canned sentiments, but if you are doing it right, when you write that you hope they are well, you feel it right then and there, for the few seconds it takes to write it. And extending your best wishes - for a second or two, you really are wishing well upon someone, not just saying it.

I look forward to seeing other people's comments and reading the discussion.

Please accept my best wishes.

I don't think you are wrong to find short one-line emails slightly rude, they are at minimum, rushed responses sent without a lot of care. However it's a very minor and excusable level of rudeness that you are best to just ignore, it's not a kind of rudeness directed at you in a personal way.

Context is very important overall, because email can fill both the role of formal written communication as well as informal conversational communication.

Personally I would find it rude for an email thread to be started by a message that didn't include any pleasantries or introductory text. As the conversation develops and the thread grows, it's common to dispense with the pleasantries and send brief emails that get right to the point, and usually when a discussion is finalised you might have some parting pleasantries as well.

I think the key question to ask yourself is if the response you receive addresses the points of your email or not. If your points are being addressed as needed, the respondent has taken the time to understand your email and replied accordingly, the style of their reply is less important than the fact that they are granting you the courtesy of reading your emails and getting you what you need.

Ultimately, if everyone is understanding each other, you can keep writing your way and let them write theirs, and try not to let this kind of low-level rudeness get under your skin.