Academic Yob

I’ve already been gently and politely reminded that I need too adopt a more formal tone in forum postings on the university message boards. Not deliberate of course: I’m absolutely seeing conformity to local norms as part of the process of learning about portuguese culture, but informality and brevity are so ingrained in me it’s going to be hard to remember to write Estimado such-and-such before just launching into whatever thought brought me to the forum in the first place!