Even in French the use of email legitimises a degree of informality: "Cordialement" is a handy all-purpose sign-off.
Petter Matthews, director of the Construction Sector Transparency Initiative International Secretariat explains: "A study has shown that the decision-making process for... large energy projects in sub-Saharan Africa is often characterised by poor project appraisal systems, a high degree of informality and an absence of effective management.
We tackle the problem of predicting the future popularity level of micro-reviews, focusing on Foursquare tips, whose high degree of informality and briefness offer extra difficulties to the design of effective popularity prediction methods.
Kinship terms used in salutations were not only in full forms, but also in abbreviations, showing a higher degree of informality: (57) Dear A. A (text 3-6-X) Dear older brother A "Dear older brother A" .
The non-physician health care providers contrasted the degree of informality and the existence of social relationships with hospitalists to a lack of any relationship with consultants.
However, the interpreters were all trained in interpretation techniques and ethics, and some of the patients were familiar with the interpreters, which may have contributed to higher degree of informality and mutual trust in the interview situation.
It thrives in concert spaces that make a point of informality.
This is less a function of architecture than of attitude, with Brooklyn continuing to value a degree of financial informality, an aesthetic of process, a we-won't-grow-up sense of community.
The principal approaches contrasting formal and informal do not recognise the informal as a differentiated process bearing various degrees of diversification; they maintain the equivalence of informality and marginality.
