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Usenet Posted 22 years ago
English in UK

Help needed

Hello!
I am looking for someone who can help me a little with my homepage which is written in English. A Native English speaker would be excellent Please send me an email. Thank you very much in advance.
Kind regards,
  

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At 21:09:28 on Sun, 4 Apr 2004, Alex (Email Removed) wrote in : [nq:1]I am looking for someone who can help me a little with my homepage which is written in English. A Native English speaker would be excellent Please send me an email. [/nq] Basically, we like to conduct business on the newsgroup itself - that way, you don't get the same thing repeated over and over in separate e-mails, and if anybody says anything that is wrong it can be corrected.

  • At 21:09:28 on Sun, 4 Apr 2004, Alex (Email Removed) wrote in : [nq:1]I am looking for someone who can help me a little with my homepage which is written in English.
  • A Native English speaker would be excellent Please send me an email.
  • [/nq] Basically, we like to conduct business on the newsgroup itself - that way, you don't get the same thing repeated over and over in separate e-mails, and if anybody says anything that is wrong it can be corrected.
  • Give us the URL of your home page and we'll have a look at it.
  • Molly Mockford I think I've been too long on my own, but the little green goblin that lives under the sink says I'm OK - and he's never wrong, so I must be!
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At 21:09:28 on Sun, 4 Apr 2004, Alex (Email Removed) wrote in :
[nq:1]I am looking for someone who can help me a little with my homepage which is written in English. A Native English speaker would be excellent Please send me an email. Thank you very much in advance.[/nq]
Basically, we like to conduct business on the newsgroup itself - that way, you don't get the same thing repeated over an
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[nq:2]I am looking for someone who can help me a ... send me an email. Thank you very much in advance.[/nq]
[nq:1]Basically, we like to conduct business on the newsgroup itself - that way, you don't get the same thing repeated ... wrong it can be corrected. Give us the URL of your home page and we'll have a look at it.[/nq]
I won't. For whom are you speaking when you make such an offer?
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At 05:00:00 on Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Giles Todd (Email Removed) wrote in (Email Removed):
[nq:2]Give us the URL of your home page and we'll have a look at it.[/nq]
[nq:1]I won't. For whom are you speaking when you make such an offer?[/nq]
"Give us the URL of your home page and a subset of us will have a look at it."
Or, since some people might not even read the post containing the URL:
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[nq:2]I won't. For whom are you speaking when you make such an offer?[/nq]
[nq:1]"Give us the URL of your home page and a subset of us will have a look at it." Or, ... go with the OP's suggestion, do it all by e-mail, and forget all about that quaint thing known as Usenet?[/nq]
Another option: "Give me the URL and I'll have a look at it."

It really is possible to speak for oneself
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At 11:00:40 on Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Giles Todd (Email Removed) wrote in (Email Removed):
[nq:1]Another option: "Give me the URL and I'll have a look at it."[/nq]
But that encourages the OP to revert to e-mail. It is standard practice throughout Usenet to encourage people to read replies to their queries in the newsgroup. It is not a write-only medium.
[nq:1]It really is possible to speak f
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[nq:2]Another option: "Give me the URL and I'll have a look at it."[/nq]
[nq:1]But that encourages the OP to revert to e-mail.[/nq]
How about: "Give us the URL and I'll have a look at it."
John Hall
"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts,
he shall end in certainties." Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
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[nq:1]How about: "Give us the URL and I'll have a look at it."[/nq]
Suits me.
Giles.
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[nq:1]Suits me.[/nq]
Mind you, the voices in my head me keep telling that I should have written "Suits us."
Giles.
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[nq:1]How about: "Give us the URL and I'll have a look at it."[/nq]
Or, more realistically, "Give us the URL and some of us might have a look at it."

Mike Stevens, narrowboat Felis Catus II
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"I'm not an old ****, and I'm not an old bore,
Or a grumpy old ****r like Evelyn Waugh"
(Christopher Matthew)
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[nq:1]Or, more realistically, "Give us the URL and some of us might have a look at it."[/nq]
That won't work: you'll just be accused of speaking on behalf of some of us -)

John Briggs

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