I appreciate you.......
跟中學班主任吃下午茶，她說，現在的人不知怎搞的，言必「分享」，動不動就「appreciate」，聽得她心煩氣燥。
又係喎。
話口未完，收到一個陌生學生的電郵，十萬火急請在下任推薦人，十萬火急到一個地步，就是五時截止報名，他四時三十分才開金口。電郵末，為表謝意，冒出了一句 “I appreciate you”。
You appreciate me??咁多謝呀。
另一次，收到一個邀請，來人是一群三九唔識七的學生。他們要做一個專題報告，想我跟他們談三十分鐘，信中如是說：We are pleased to invite you for an interview for 30 minutes.
真係多謝夾盛惠，我appreciate到極。電郵附上一張提問清單，驟眼看，我以為可以寫成一個course outline。
又一次，我動了真氣，幾乎就要回郵教他們怎樣寫信。來信大意如下: We know you know something about the topic. We have time to talk to you on xxx or xxx. We are happy to meet you at your convenience.
我終於還是沉住了氣，沒有真的用track the changes的方式標示信應怎麼改寫。後來我想，如果真要回信，我一定要問，他們這些英文函件的template是哪裡得來。
如蒙分享， “I appreciate you”.
又係喎。
話口未完，收到一個陌生學生的電郵，十萬火急請在下任推薦人，十萬火急到一個地步，就是五時截止報名，他四時三十分才開金口。電郵末，為表謝意，冒出了一句 “I appreciate you”。
You appreciate me??咁多謝呀。
另一次，收到一個邀請，來人是一群三九唔識七的學生。他們要做一個專題報告，想我跟他們談三十分鐘，信中如是說：We are pleased to invite you for an interview for 30 minutes.
真係多謝夾盛惠，我appreciate到極。電郵附上一張提問清單，驟眼看，我以為可以寫成一個course outline。
又一次，我動了真氣，幾乎就要回郵教他們怎樣寫信。來信大意如下: We know you know something about the topic. We have time to talk to you on xxx or xxx. We are happy to meet you at your convenience.
我終於還是沉住了氣，沒有真的用track the changes的方式標示信應怎麼改寫。後來我想，如果真要回信，我一定要問，他們這些英文函件的template是哪裡得來。
如蒙分享， “I appreciate you”.
posted by 小杜 at
10/27/2009 10:01:00 PM
11 Comments:
Haha~~ I am 'pleased' to see your blog. I 'appreciate you' for this post!
寫了那麼多年英文信件，這結語句其實就不能掌握得很好。坊間一眾「職業英語」叢書好像不太可靠。
誠心請教結語句如何寫法？或有何網站書籍推薦？
司南：
很慚愧，我從沒認真找過這類參考書。
我始終認為，書信目的在於溝通，該thank you 就thank you，不要太別出心裁地寫I appreciate you之類的東西，那就不會出太大的亂子。至於那句I look forward to hearing from you soon，好像是歷來我想得到，最保險的結語吧。
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我只會寫 Thank you for your attention... 雖然我知道不是太多人會pay attention to my mail...
同你溝通,
點解唔寫方塊字?
你唔識定佢地唔識?
睇你寫blog,應該唔似係你!
你不如覆佢地話:
我識中文0架!
寫廣東話我都識睇0架!
唔使寫雞腸0架!
我唔係碧眼金髮雪膚0架!
除非你俾人一個印象,唔用英文,埋唔到你身0羅!
We know you know something about the topic...哈哈哈，該句話真不知該怎樣理解。
依家啲人唔單止英文差，中文亦唔好得去邊，將"share"譯成「分享」，動不動講「分享」，講死人塌樓都話「同大家分享下…」，不知所謂！
We know you know something about the topic...哈哈哈，應該咁樣理解!
我地收到料,你知道D野,
不如約個時間,
等你從實招來!
Anonymous,
That is a fanfuckingtastic translation. I love it!
i'm more interested in how you respond to these students.
let me put it into context. a student read some interesting work on new research methods and would like to follow this work and run some analyses.
this student ran into problems and tried to get some help from these authors. this student has reasonable english writing skills and the inquires were professional and polite.
yet, this student heard nothing for weeks.
what is academia about? is it not about ideas and sharing ideas? publication is important for the cv. but isn't it more important that it's actually read? when it is read, isn't it important that people try and see if what they say really works?
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