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Is "please to remind" a valid construction?
One of my collegues (not native english speaker) always uses this contruction:
To me (not native english speaker) it sounds gramatically incorrect, but I wonder whether it is a formal construction I maybe just don't know.
You cannot ever follow please with the to of a to-infinitive. It just takes the bare infinitive of the imperative mode.
"Please to" looks like old modern English, rather than incorrect or a regionalism. Usage has gone steadily downhill since 1700. The short phrasing used to show up in telegrams, where the sender was charged by the word.
No, they don't sound correct the way they stand. It'd be okay to say: I am pleased to remind you... Or as @Kristina said: remind me please, etc.
No, although it is syntactically correct, it does not make sense as an instruction.
Here, "to remind" is an infinitive and "please" is an adverb (you can replace it with "kindly" with exactly the same meaning). Compare to an equivalent grammatical construction with different words:
Quickly, to dance
or
to dance quickly
That is understandable, and grammatically correct, but you couldn't use it as an instruction. However:
Quickly, dance
without the "to" works fine as an instruction, just like:
Please remind me
