RE: RE: RE: RE
I generally prefer communicating with people through written words by email or text. It's just much easier to think through what you want to say and just focus on relating the actual message. When you are physically there with the other person, you really have to make an extra effort of dividing some of your attention to not saying things that would offend them too much, because there's a greater risk of you actually getting beat up for what you say.
But sometimes email exchanges are as equally as annoying. I'm not sure if it's just my friends, but... well, here's an example. Let's say I were to write an email like this to my Friend A.
Subject: This Weekend
Yo, Friend A, what's up?
There's a movie that's coming out this weekend called "I Like Cookies." It's supposed to be really good - want to go check it out next Saturday on the 24th? Apparently, it's based on the book series I let you borrow "Eat Your Muffins, Bitch." Also, do you think I can get those books back from you so I can skim them before I watch the movie?
Alright, talk to you later,
Masato
This is the type of reply that some of my friends would sometimes write.
Subject: RE: This Weekend
Hey, Masato! I'm doing great. You won't believe what happened to me today. A random cat attacked me at work. I was in my cubicle, and it jumped onto my back out of nowhere. I had to kick it in its face.
Hope you're doing well, we should hang out sometime!
Friend A
Ok, none of my friends would actually kick a cat in its face, but what they sometimes do is not answer the question/s I had asked in my original email. So there I am thinking, "Did he/she actually read my email?" I mean, if they are replying to the email you had sent, then obviously they must have, right? But then why wouldn't they answer the questions that blatantly needed an answer? I go back and reread my original email and make sure I didn't write it in Japanese or something crazy. Nope. So, risking sounding like a douchebag, I would write back something like this.
Subject: RE: RE: This Weekend
Hey. Do you think you can answer those questions from the original message I sent ya? Ones about meeting up this Saturday and getting my books back?
Masato
And of course, their reply would come few days later, and be something along the line of
Subject: RE: RE: RE: This Weekend
Hi Masato, how's your day going? Oh my gosh, my day is dragging so long. And my boss is on PMS or something because he keeps growling at me while repeatedly punching his own stomach. Ugh. Hope you are having a better day!
HAS ANSWER YOU THE COMMUNICATE ENGLISH BLAGGARGHSP??
Seriously, is it just me, or have other people experienced something like this? Like you are having a total one-sided conversation with someone else in another dimension where the idea of communication is regarded in the same manner as Hitler.
But sometimes email exchanges are as equally as annoying. I'm not sure if it's just my friends, but... well, here's an example. Let's say I were to write an email like this to my Friend A.
Subject: This Weekend
Yo, Friend A, what's up?
There's a movie that's coming out this weekend called "I Like Cookies." It's supposed to be really good - want to go check it out next Saturday on the 24th? Apparently, it's based on the book series I let you borrow "Eat Your Muffins, Bitch." Also, do you think I can get those books back from you so I can skim them before I watch the movie?
Alright, talk to you later,
Masato
This is the type of reply that some of my friends would sometimes write.
Subject: RE: This Weekend
Hey, Masato! I'm doing great. You won't believe what happened to me today. A random cat attacked me at work. I was in my cubicle, and it jumped onto my back out of nowhere. I had to kick it in its face.
Hope you're doing well, we should hang out sometime!
Friend A
Ok, none of my friends would actually kick a cat in its face, but what they sometimes do is not answer the question/s I had asked in my original email. So there I am thinking, "Did he/she actually read my email?" I mean, if they are replying to the email you had sent, then obviously they must have, right? But then why wouldn't they answer the questions that blatantly needed an answer? I go back and reread my original email and make sure I didn't write it in Japanese or something crazy. Nope. So, risking sounding like a douchebag, I would write back something like this.
Subject: RE: RE: This Weekend
Hey. Do you think you can answer those questions from the original message I sent ya? Ones about meeting up this Saturday and getting my books back?
Masato
And of course, their reply would come few days later, and be something along the line of
Subject: RE: RE: RE: This Weekend
Hi Masato, how's your day going? Oh my gosh, my day is dragging so long. And my boss is on PMS or something because he keeps growling at me while repeatedly punching his own stomach. Ugh. Hope you are having a better day!
HAS ANSWER YOU THE COMMUNICATE ENGLISH BLAGGARGHSP??
Seriously, is it just me, or have other people experienced something like this? Like you are having a total one-sided conversation with someone else in another dimension where the idea of communication is regarded in the same manner as Hitler.