Re: e-mails needed...

paulina wrote:
>
> Hi everyone:-) I'm new here and a bit embarassed to start with asking
> for help at the very beginning.... but any help is really needed...J
> I'm studying English Philology at the Jagiellonian University in
> Cracov, Poland - I'm just about to start writing my M.A. thesis. I'm
> looking at the language of e-mail in informal contexts: trying to
> investigate if there are any differences between the way young men and
> women (aged 18-35 (40)) who come from Great Britain write e-mails. I'm
> collecting data at the moment, and would really appreciate it if anyone
> could forward me informal e-mails from friends, which they have
> received. If you want to delete e-mail addresses, please feel free, but
> I would also need to know the senders' sex and education
> (secondary/degree/higher degree, etc)... The e-mails don't have to
> strike you as linguistically significant as I'm after a fair sample of
> data. Anything but junk mail would be really useful. The e-mail account
> for my data is paulinag81@xxxxxx
> Thx a lot in advance for your help!
> Paulina

It would be illegal for people to send you other people's private
correspondence without their permission. You can ask people to send you
_their own_ emails, but to get other people's, they have to come
directly from the other people (or they have to give their permission).
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@xxxxxxx
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