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Perfect Stranger Posted 9 years ago
Vocabulary

To take the liberty to do something?

Dear Users,

Is it OK to begin a letter to a person who doesn't know you and whose email address available on his/her website with the following words? (I hope this sentence itself is correctly written?)

I allowed myself to take the liberty and write to you in order to ask a few questions I am hoping you might be able to answer.

Thanks
  

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Perfect Stranger Is it OK to begin a letter to a person who doesn't know you and whose email address available on his/her website with the following words? The idiom is a bit old-fashioned, but you may use it this way: I am taking the liberty of writing to you in order to ask a few questions I am hoping you might be able to answer.

— Mister Micawber

  • Perfect Stranger Is it OK to begin a letter to a person who doesn't know you and whose email address available on his/her website with the following words?
  • The idiom is a bit old-fashioned, but you may use it this way: I am taking the liberty of writing to you in order to ask a few questions I am hoping you might be able to answer.
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Perfect StrangerIs it OK to begin a letter to a person who doesn't know you and whose email address available on his/her website with the following words?
The idiom is a bit old-fashioned, but you may use it this way:

I am taking the liberty of writing to you in order to ask a few questions I am hoping you might be able to answer.
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Thank you.

Is there any other way to politely approach a person who doesn't know me in a written way? I don't want him/her to outright disregard my email.
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Perfect Stranger I don't want him/her to outright disregard my email.
Of course you don't; no one does. Just be simple, polite and direct so as not to try his patience. On second reading, the example I gave you seems appropriate (and not old-fashioned). Or you could just start with the usual:

I am a student at ABC who is hoping to xyz, and I am
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