H-mail
Declan Chellar July 5th, 2007
For some years I worked in an office where one of my colleagues had the habit of sending you an e-mail and then walking over to tell you:
A) that he had sent you an e-mail and
B) what the e-mail was about.
This colleague’s initials were HH, so came up with the phrase H-mail. Any time HH approached my desk, I would raise my hands and join the tips of my thumbs to form the letter H.
So now you know what to call it when a colleague does this to you.
H-Mail: (n) Verbal confirmation delivered in person by the sender of an e-mail, stating that they have sent an e-mail and detailing what the e-mail was about.
Fly, child of mine! Be free!
Classic! One more obscure bit of human behaviour safely classified…behavioural taxonomists everywhere thank you ;).