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What should I tell her?
As a magazine publisher, I get queries all the time from high school and college students, but nothing quite like this:
To how this my consern
Hi my name is jenna , I'm a grafic strudent at
colloge nere Brumingham. For my finale projected we
have to find adavtising for company we have desinged.
I have just a fow quitions for you company.
How long has the company been runing?
How strated the company?
And when?
And What do you acathally adavtise?
Is magazine adavtising your many way of adavtisment?
Dos it coast more to adavtise in the frount, middle or back ?
How do you catagrise the sections?
What are the prizes you chage?
What's the avrage size for an addvert?
Do's it coast change if you have it in color or black and white?
what would you say to a company just sarting up?
How much do's it coast to adavtise in Tubs, Bus and on cabs?
Do you do billboards as well?If posabel could i have it back by the 11th Aprile please.
Sinseraly jenna
Posted by carrie on 04/06/2005 | Permalink
Comments
I think you should ignore it. Life's too short.
Posted by: Steve Portigal | Apr 6, 2005 6:39:29 PM
I'd reply w/ one sentence answers and politely but firmly suggest she enroll in a remedial english comp class.
Posted by: akb | Apr 6, 2005 6:39:40 PM
seems like a joke to me. the spelling is too smart..
Posted by: andrea | Apr 6, 2005 6:55:51 PM
I agree with Andrea. I think it's a joke as well. If not, well, perhaps English is not Jenna's first language - if that's the case, then it'd be really cruel to mock the letter.
Posted by: sarra | Apr 6, 2005 8:32:18 PM
She's probably learning disabled, I get emails like this from time to time. I'd use her "what would you say to a company just sarting up?" as an entry point to talk about the importance of making a good first impression and spell checking.
Posted by: jessamyn | Apr 6, 2005 9:02:05 PM
Will yoo cood juts anser herr kweschen. du
Posted by: Treban | Apr 6, 2005 10:57:23 PM
I agree with Jessamyn.
Possibly dyslexic. In any case, it seems that you have thought about responding enough to create an entry about it...so, I think you should follow that instinct and reply.
Answer her questions as honestly as possible.
In the process of answering, some idea(s) might crystallize for you in a creative way.
...And, who knows? She might start a company that you may work for someday. :)
Posted by: sunil | Apr 7, 2005 5:31:18 AM
It sounds to me like English is her second language. Aparently she is working on a group project and, I imagine, that since she is still learning English she has been assigned the task of advertising. If I were you, I'd answer her questions as politely and wish her the best of luck on her group project.
Posted by: Tyler | Apr 7, 2005 10:59:26 AM
I agree that she sounds like a speaker of English as a second language. I'm betting that this was an in-class assignment in which she couldn't sit down with a dictionary. The biggest clue for this theory is the British term "advert." Lots of overseas English instruction uses British textbooks.
And I'm not just saying this because I'm from Alabama! :) Regardless, it's unsettling.
Posted by: Mesoj | Apr 7, 2005 1:31:12 PM
For the record, I did indeed respond, and politely. She was not in fact kidding, so that leaves open the possibility that English is not her first language (though her full name is even more Anglo than mine), that she is learning disabled, suffering from a head injury, or recovering from a Florida public school education.
Posted by: carrie | Apr 7, 2005 3:03:23 PM
is she hot lookin?
Posted by: Kev | Apr 7, 2005 9:20:33 PM
