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Email marketing: how to p*ss off your readers or spamees

February 26, 2018 By Suzan St Maur Leave a Comment

When a classic email marketing no-no gets through your spam filter into your inbox, much as it’s annoying it’s worth taking a look to see what we can learn from it.In this case (see below) its arrogance is diluted mainly by its authors’ ignorance of how to write properly in English.

Why native English matters when you’re writing for marketing, or even for spam

Here’s PART 7 – 20 more business terms for non-native English speakers

July 6, 2016 By Suzan St Maur Leave a Comment

Hi again everyone. Welcome to Part Seven of this series on business terms in English, and what they mean – in plain English!

(For direct links to the other articles in the series, scroll down to the bottom of this one.)

In Part 7, we look at 20 more metaphors used as business terms

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Local advertisers: stop writing we-wee and start getting a decent ROI. Followed by ... 10 quick tips on how to write effective local advertising!
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A LITTLE LIGHT LATIN, FOLKS? You never know when a little conversational Latin might come in handy.

Some years ago at a lunch party I sat next to a lovely lawyer – the father of a friend of mine – whose only quirk was that halfway through a sentence he would switch from speaking English, into Latin. He would continue in Latin for several minutes before casually resuming English.

Latin not exactly being my second language, I smiled beatifically and used the downtime to chew my food.

What made it even more unusual was that far from this being in a romantic, vine-draped al fresco restaurant in Tuscany … or even a studious, book-lined coffee shop in Oxford or Cambridge … this was on a farm in rural Leicestershire, England.

No wonder the lawyer’s wife drank. She would be on the tipple of sweet vermouth from shortly after breakfast and by tea-time was almost catatonic. I guess her Latin wasn’t much better than mine.

To help you avoid a similar fate, here are some Latin phrases you might find useful on your travels ... click through to read on!

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Hilarious Latin phrases and Suzan St Maur's true story of how an British lawyer spoke Latin to her over dinner on a farm in rural England...

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