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Dear ***:
Thank you for your interest in my skills.
I’m really interested in the position of Sales Engineer that you have offered.
Please find enclosed my word adjourned [I can't understand "word adjourned"] CV and cover letter.
I look forward to hearing from you,
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| #3 (permalink) Fri Jun 08, 2007 6:50 am Use of submit |
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Hi Jamie,
What is wrong with a comma in:
All the best
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| #4 (permalink) Fri Jun 08, 2007 7:34 am Use of submit |
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| A little bird told me ':' is better than ',' for a business letter. |
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| #5 (permalink) Fri Jun 08, 2007 8:39 am Use of submit |
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Why after Dear you have used ":"?
Why you underlined C and L of cover letter?
"word adjourned" means only "an adjourned CV in Microsoft Word format file"
Can you suggest some training aid about business writing? |
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| #6 (permalink) Fri Jun 08, 2007 8:59 am Use of submit |
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As you have requested 
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Why have you used ":" after Dear ?
Why have you underlined C and L of cover letter?
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| #7 (permalink) Fri Jun 08, 2007 11:08 am Use of submit |
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| velectro wrote: |
| Why after Dear you have used ":"? |
A colon is used in American English. In British English, use a comma or even no punctuation at all after the salutation. |
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| #8 (permalink) Fri Jun 08, 2007 13:27 pm Use of submit |
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| velectro wrote: |
| Why you underlined C and L of cover letter? |
You capitalized the C and L in "cover letter", but "cover letter" is not the proper name of a person or place, so it should be written with a small C and a small L.
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| "word adjourned" means only "an adjourned CV in Microsoft Word format file" |
I still can't understand it. Look up the word "adjourn" in an Italian-English dictionary. "Adjourn" means "aggiornare". I don't understand how a CV can be aggiornato. You can adjourn a meeting, or adjourn a session of parliament, but you can't adjourn a CV or a computer file.
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| Can you suggest some training aid about business writing? |
I think that right now it's your basic general English that needs work, and not simply your business English. |
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| #9 (permalink) Fri Jun 08, 2007 13:47 pm Use of submit |
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In italian "aggiornare = adjourn" have two meaning, one refering to meeting,
"aggiornare una riunione o una seduta"
the second refering to documents,file or DB
"aggiornare un CV/ aggiornare un database".
Probably in english the second meaning is not used so I might have said:
"word adjourned" = an updated CV in Microsoft Word format file
Are you agree? |
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| #10 (permalink) Fri Jun 08, 2007 13:56 pm Use of submit |
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Oh, I see! "Aggiornare" means the same thing as French "mettre ? jour", meaning to update. In that case, you should have said "an up-to-date CV in Word format", but "up-to-date" is not necessary, because any employer assumes that any CV should be up to date. So it's better to say "a current CV in Word format."
I thought that by "adjourned" you meant "adjoined", which means "attached". You attach a computer file to an e-mail. |
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| #11 (permalink) Fri Jun 08, 2007 14:03 pm Use of submit |
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| velectro wrote: |
| Are you agree? |
Do you agree
(agree is a verb) |
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| #12 (permalink) Fri Jun 08, 2007 14:14 pm Use of submit |
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| Is right! I know, but I wrong everytime, for the same reason in italian we say: "Sei daccordo?". |
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| velectro wrote: |
| Is right! I know, but I wrong everytime, for the same reason in italian we say: "Sei daccordo?". |
And not only in Italian. In this case, English is the odd one out, at least among a bunch of European languages.
Come to think of it, English does have a similar construction: we are agreed. It can only be used for more than one person, though. |
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| #14 (permalink) Fri Jun 08, 2007 16:09 pm Use of submit |
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| And to ask, "Are we agreed?" while not wrong, is a little unusual. |
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| #15 (permalink) Fri Jun 08, 2007 19:27 pm Use of submit |
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Hi,
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| A colon is used in American English. In British English, use a comma or even no punctuation at all after the salutation. |
Exactly. I wonder why Jamie assumes that velectro is going to apply for a job in the US.
All the best
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