Re: Student looking for re-readers for his thesis ( it deals with embedded system, USB, Linux, microcontrolers, firmwares ... )

From: Babacio (babacio_at_free.fr)
Date: 12/08/04 

Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 14:45:15 +0100

Randy Yates.

> Chris Cole <ithinkiam@gmail.com> writes:
>> [...]
>> The tone is wrong as well. Words like 'expect' and 'shall' are not
>> synonymous with a request, more an order.
>
> That bugs me too when I hear people phrase things like that. If they
> expect a favor, the least they can do is phrase the request politely.

I think you are totally right: this message sounds very arrogant.
However, the author is not a native english speaker, so that may be
clumsiness and not arrogance?

By the way, this post was a spam, it is crossposted in 8 groups
without any followup. It would be very nice of you to chose a single
group to persue this dicussion. Especially avoid fr.sci.maths which is
a french speaking group.

I position a first followup to all the english speaking groups, this
is still bad, but I really don't know which to chose.

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