Found this when I sent an email via the Contact Us form. Someone seems to have left out the forum link. ;)
Is the word "Homepage" not a link, then?
Allow me to be more specific. Check attachment below.
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I'll pass it on.
Ta, Scotty! :)
Glad to help. ;D
It's the little things like that, that make the world go around ;)
I didn't notice that before, you must have special eyes :P
Quote from: Liam. on June 01, 2010, 06:52:58 PM
It's the little things like that, that make the world go around ;)
I didn't notice that before, you must have special eyes :P
I'm feeling very alert today. :o
I kind of feel that the sentences are not structured properly.
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I think it should be something like:
QuoteThank you for sending us a message. We'll reply you as soon as possible. In the meantime, feel free to visit our support forum and search as there's a good chance that your comment or concern is already addressed there.
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That makes more sense ?
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Quote from: (F.L.A.M.E.R) on June 01, 2010, 07:33:18 PM
I kind of feel that the sentences are not structured properly.
QuoteThank you for sending us a message! We'll be sure to reply as soon as possible. In the meantime,feel free to try visiting our support forum as there's a good chance your comment or concern can be addressed there.
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I think it should be something like:
QuoteThank you for sending us a message. We'll reply you as soon as possible. In the meantime, feel free to visit our support forum and search as there's a good chance that your comment or concern is already addressed there.
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That makes more sense ?
Still bad grammar. The term "reply you" makes no sense at all. It should be "reply to you". :P
I thought that was an Americanism.
You want I reply you now Kat? You can reply me then. Or we can both reply him. ;D
Let's all reply each-other. ;)
Quote from: Antechinus on June 02, 2010, 06:10:26 AM
You want I reply you now Kat? You can reply me then. Or we can both reply him. ;D
Rofl.
Okay I replied K@t to. Yoda speak we do must.
Nice one, Liam. ;D
/me replies to everybody.
What does K@t say?
actually, the "reply you" is wrong... the rest is not wrong... it is just using the passive form, which is wordy and awkward... :P
How about, we'll get in touch with you ? :P
I still think 'We'll reply you as soon as possible' is right! 'We'll reply to you as soon as possible' is just out of question.
Any English teacher here ? I don't think that a preposition is needed.
"We will respond as soon as we are able". ;)
Quote from: (F.L.A.M.E.R) on June 02, 2010, 03:41:25 PM
How about, we'll get in touch with you ? :P
I still think 'We'll reply you as soon as possible' is right! 'We'll reply to you as soon as possible' is just out of question.
Any English teacher here ? I don't think that a preposition is needed.
Yes, there is an English teacher here. Kindred is one, and he just told you a preposition is needed. There is another English teacher here too. Kat is English. He concurs. Go figure. :P
"Reply you" is no more correct than "talk him". As in "I will talk him tomorrow".
"Reply you" is out of the question.
An active non technical teacher on internet says both are right :P
http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=245763
There are some phrases where a preposition is not needed. eg: We'll reply you as soon as possible. Adding a 'to' just makes it awkward!
Nope. Leaving the "to" out makes it awkward.
Speak both the statements loud in your room. It makes it more fluent without 'to'.
Oh come-on. Half term and I get a week off of school, and theres still babble about things like this :P
Quote from: (F.L.A.M.E.R) on June 03, 2010, 07:12:39 AM
Speak both the statements loud in your room. It makes it more fluent without 'to'.
Nope. It sounds doofus and retarded. :P
KMA!
sorry... leaving the preposition out is grammatically incorrect. I don't care what the internet says, if any of my students did that, I would mark them down. Any English teacher who says that you can leave the "to" out in that phrase must be working on translating from another language....
(F.L.A.M.E.R) if you leave out the "to" then you'e kind of missing a critical part of the sentence. After all, how do we know how you're replying then? You could be replying "for" us, replying "with" us, or even replying "on" us.
Or we could just avoid this whole discussion by going for something like "You will receive a reply shortly."
But what if their name isn't Shortly?
Hmm....Good point.
Then how about "You'll receive a reply when we damn well feel like writing one!"
"You'll receive a reply once we've figured out how to construct this sentence the proper way!"
As I'm Swedish, I can see a certain logic in "reply you" as that's how it's constructed in Swedish ("svara dig"). There's not a chance in the world we'd add a 'to' ('till', "svara till dig") there. :P
But when it comes to English... No, just no. It sounds, and is, wrong.
Alright guys, shove the 'to' before 'you' and fix the grammar. It was a 'international pick day on me'. Lets move on. :P