Paper trail

“Per my last email”

I already answered this and you did not read it. Repeating myself is now a documented grievance, not a favor.

How it gets used

Deployed when someone asks a question you have already answered in writing, or when you want a timestamped record of their inattention. Often the opening line of a longer, colder message.

Three ways to answer “Per my last email”

Brutally Honest Translation

Read the thread. I'm putting this in writing so it is on the record that you ignored me.

Supreme Court Polite

As set out in my previous correspondence, the information you requested appears below again for your convenience.

Passive-Aggressive Retaliation

Happy to resend! I've pasted it below so everything lives in one place for you and anyone else who may have missed it.

Paste the whole message instead

Phrases rarely arrive alone. Run the full email through the decrypter to see all three translations together and get an evasion score for the message as a whole.

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