Begging for Advertising Emails for My Graduation Paper

Status
Not open for further replies.

Artena

New member
Joined
Apr 19, 2008
Member Type
Academic
Dear all friends,

I'm happy to have discovered this forum which is among the most crowed and effective forums of ESL. As I know that there're a lot of people who are speaking English as the first or official language here whom I love to ask to do me a favour.

My graduation paper (thesis) is about the language of English advertising emails. Its topic is "The Language of English Advertising Email from a Perspective of Politeness". So I'm in need of about 20 English advertising emails to analyze.

You may receive advertising emails everyday in your mail box and sometimes you find an interesting email

Please kindly send me from 1 to 5 advertising emails in English which you like best to :

Those emails are only used for analyzing the language and you can request me to hide your email address.

Thank you so much!

Nguyen Thi Bich Ngoc
4th-year student
Department of English and American Cultures
Hanoi University of Languages and International Studies
Vietnam National University, Hanoi
Contact this person by Private Message
icon_rolleyes.gif
 
Last edited by a moderator:

Anglika

No Longer With Us
Joined
Oct 19, 2006
Member Type
Other
I am afraid my reaction to this is you must be joking. I spend a great deal of my time getting rid of spam and there is no way I will copy anyone into it.

Set up an email account and lay yourself open to spam and you will not have any shortage of advertising emails.:shocked!:
 

Tdol

Editor, UsingEnglish.com
Staff member
Joined
Nov 13, 2002
Member Type
Native Language
British English
Home Country
UK
Current Location
Japan
Most of them don't seem to have much in the way of politeness; they focus on trying to get past the spam protection systems and this drives the content. A few months ago they were quoting texts from books as a way of getting round the Bayesian filters. Now they're appear to be trying to use synonyms that people will understand but not the filters. Have you seen this site? Ebola Monkey Man: Nigerian 419 Scam

BTW Anglika; get Gmail- very little spam gets through.
 

Anglika

No Longer With Us
Joined
Oct 19, 2006
Member Type
Other
Thanks for the suggestion - I've got four e-mail accounts now and am leery about yet another! I will probably have to go that way in the end, though.
 

Tdol

Editor, UsingEnglish.com
Staff member
Joined
Nov 13, 2002
Member Type
Native Language
British English
Home Country
UK
Current Location
Japan
I know the feeling, but seeing my pristine inbox makes up for it.
 

MarkF2004

Member
Joined
Apr 25, 2008
Member Type
Student or Learner
Thanks for the suggestion - I've got four e-mail accounts now and am leery about yet another! I will probably have to go that way in the end, though.

Hello Anglika,

If I may I'll endorse Tdol's suggestion re: Gmail. I just signed up for it a couple of weeks ago and not one single spam has gotten through. You also get quite a few add-ons which you might find useful. In particular a very large amount of storage space.

I am not employed by Google, I promise. :-D

Cheers
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Top