Yoidzokumi

08.02.2023 03:55 •  Английский язык

Email is a wonderful (0) of communication. It’s easy, it’s fast - but sometimes just one little click of the ‘send’ button can spell disaster.
How many times have emails been sent to the (1) person, or to several people (2) just one person? Dave Gethings got (3) trouble when
he replied to a birthday invitation. He emailed back a joking, but extremely rude reply, not only to his friend, but also to his manager, the secretaries, directors -to (4) in the company, in fact.

There are other cases of people forwarding emails (5) purpose. Lawyer Richard Phillips emailed his secretary (6) her that she had spilt tomato ketchup on his trousers at lunch and asking her to pay the dry-cleaning bill for the (7) of £4. This email, which was passed around many other law firms, was answered with a stinging reply by his secretary, which also went round the legal world and even (8) it into the national news! With the resulting publicity, Mr Phillips was so embarrassed at (9) people considered to be his meanness that he left his job.

Joseph Dobbie said that he wasn’t embarrassed when his email was (10) around the world, but he did have to change his telephone numbers. He had sent a romantic email to a woman called Kate, who he had met at a party. She had sent it to her sister, who forwarded it to friends, who then forwarded it to more
friends. In the end, he was getting (11) from people as (12) away as Australia and the US!

So, before we send our next email, perhaps we should stop and think ...