Gombi Guide
Email
A whole screen of continuous text is not easy to read either, so as with
a letter, try to break your message up into short paragraphs with breaks
in between. White space makes text easier to read, so leave a line
between paragraphs. If you want some part of your message to stand
out, use the same methods as in wordprocessing - bold, underlined,
italics, different colour, CAPITAL LETTERS [the fewer the better: use for
emphasis only.]
If Aunt Maud went to the same school as I did - and you should always
assume she did! - then she will be impressed with correct grammar,
spelling and punctuation. She will not be impressed with the end of a
message which signs off with Ciao or CUL8R. Then again, horses for
courses - your favourite grandchild may be impressed that you speak
the language?
Effective communication is the name of the game - ie, make sure the
recipient understands what you are getting at. I once received the
following message in reply to one of mine:
No pic!  Is that your arm greatcoat playing up again?
I didnʼt understand, and whereas I usually discard such
gibberish, I wrote asking for an explanation, and got this -
Should have read army greatcoat, a bodgied up pseudonym
or sumpin for macin ferking tosh!
Subsequently, I received another strange message -
Marvellous specimen, but I had no idea that you were into
palaeontology? What a fur coat fossil! It is living? K!
I am sure he means well and is probably saying something
important, but I do wish he would write in plain English.
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