Timeline for Is the phrase "please kindly" redundant?
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| Mar 29, 2018 at 7:56 | comment | added | Edward Lindon | No, the sentence "Kindly apologize to your mother" is not generally used to instruct the listener how to apologize (by analogy with possible locutions such as "Quickly apologize to your mother") but to soften the imperative speech act. It is equivalent in this context to "please". | |
| Apr 4, 2011 at 19:07 | history | answered | MrHen | CC BY-SA 2.5 |