E-mail article in F&VM
Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2010 9:27 pm
Lovely article by Jan Watterson on e-mails. I have a couple of stories on subject.
I regularly receive e-mails from a lady up north relating to my profession of being a magician, but quite often one will vanish to where ever lost e-mails go. However I have just had a message from her forwarding to me the lastest lost mail. Keeping it short, it appears that someone with a nickname virtually same as mine had been receiving these and thinking they were spam had just deleted them. However this latest he had opened and read and realised what was happening and returned it to my friend. What is so odd this gent is a Musician not a magician. He is also a part time teacher as is my friend and his stage name is virtually same as mine. This seems such a strange and almost supernatural happening.
My second point is that I get used to strange oddly abreviated writing in text messages (I hate this) but in e-mails I expect accepted English to be used. I received the following e-mail from a middle-aged chap I had only met once before.
G8 pete, peraps i was camra shy? & im ken 2 learn more & lokin 4 as much advis on efex, pater & teknek. Il txt u sat pm 2 met up 4 a cofi. C u soon.
I haven't replied as [1] I don't know what the bl**dy hell it means and [2] I think it's a total insult to write like this to anyone. Steam is coming from my ears as I write. Comments!
Pete
I regularly receive e-mails from a lady up north relating to my profession of being a magician, but quite often one will vanish to where ever lost e-mails go. However I have just had a message from her forwarding to me the lastest lost mail. Keeping it short, it appears that someone with a nickname virtually same as mine had been receiving these and thinking they were spam had just deleted them. However this latest he had opened and read and realised what was happening and returned it to my friend. What is so odd this gent is a Musician not a magician. He is also a part time teacher as is my friend and his stage name is virtually same as mine. This seems such a strange and almost supernatural happening.
My second point is that I get used to strange oddly abreviated writing in text messages (I hate this) but in e-mails I expect accepted English to be used. I received the following e-mail from a middle-aged chap I had only met once before.
G8 pete, peraps i was camra shy? & im ken 2 learn more & lokin 4 as much advis on efex, pater & teknek. Il txt u sat pm 2 met up 4 a cofi. C u soon.
I haven't replied as [1] I don't know what the bl**dy hell it means and [2] I think it's a total insult to write like this to anyone. Steam is coming from my ears as I write. Comments!
Pete