Can I buy a vowel? Hi team. .. I need help. I suck at Internet speak ... I absolutely hate it, To be honest. So anyway, I got this email here at work from a vendor regarding some samples that are coming into our warehouse. I am knackered if I can decipher half of it. Please help a non-code-breaking Swannie on this one. (This guy, believe it or not, is the owner of the company and is in his late 50's) I think I have a basic idea ... but ... shit. THIS IS A GOD DAMN WORK EMAIL! Can't people leave this shit for personal communications?! Email below: U shld rcv tdy smpl for fit try. Wld u pls e mail ur comments each stle Fed xp XXXX XXXX X After try on gv to steve to rtn tdy n use fed xp nbr Acct XXXX-XXXX-X Steve knows how to shp n inclde comm inv For fed xp Pls e mail me the fed xp Nbr used to rtn smpls These smpls are needed for pdctn in fcty Thnks n rgds mel Thanks guys ... SJ

Originally posted by SJ_SwanJun Can I buy a vowel? Hi team. .. I need help. I suck at Internet speak ... I absolutely hate it, To be honest. So anyway, I got this email here at work from a vendor regarding some samples that are coming into our warehouse. I am knackered if I can decipher half of it. Please help a non-code-breaking Swannie on this one. (This guy, believe it or not, is the owner of the company and is in his late 50's) I think I have a basic idea ... but ... shit. THIS IS A GOD DAMN WORK EMAIL! Can't people leave this shit for personal communications?! Email below: U shld rcv tdy smpl for fit try. Wld u pls e mail ur comments each stle Fed xp XXXX XXXX X After try on gv to steve to rtn tdy n use fed xp nbr Acct XXXX-XXXX-X Steve knows how to shp n inclde comm inv For fed xp Pls e mail me the fed xp Nbr used to rtn smpls These smpls are needed for pdctn in fcty Thnks n rgds mel Thanks guys ... SJ

SJ, this is what came into my mind.Does it make any (more) sense now? Are you paying the e-mails at the number of characters ? yoU should receive today (a)? sample for fit try. Wolud you please e-mail ur(gently)? comments each stle Fed xp XXXX XXXX X After try(ing) on give to steve to return today in use fed (feed-back?) xp nbr Acct XXXX-XXXX-X Steve knows how to ship on include comm inv For fed xp Please e-mail me the fed (feed-back)? xp Nbr used to return samples These samples are needed for production in factory Thanks in regards mel

I'd vote UR is "your". n might be "and" comm ???? Thanks and regards, from Me! Ugh!!!!! Better than some I've seen, but still,... Tell the guy to get a Blackberry! (Or one of the new Palms; you can bring up a screen with a full keyboard.) Or get list of approved short-forms from him. I wouldn't send that mess to my husband, let alone an employee. It's no longer appropriate to expect someone else to decipher what you're too important to make clear.

Thanks, guys ... I finally cracked the code over lunch (even though I am a very sick Swan, I still managed to come out of my medicated haze and figure it out - Meds always make me feel drunk) This is what it was supposed to read: You should receive today a sample for fit-try. Would you please email me your comments for each style. FedEx shipping #XXX XXXX After trying on give to Steve to return today and use Spirit FedEx number XXXX-XXXX-X Steve knows how to ship and include Commercial Invoice for FedEx. Please email me the FedEx Shipping # used to return samples. These samples are needed for production facility. Thanks and Regards.... I mean, shit ... is that so hard to type out? And he knows full well that the damn FedEx stuff comes through me, so .... Ugh ..... Idiot ... Oh well - there goes the English language ... and I thought people saying "axe" instead of ask, and "di -eh-n't" instead of didn't were painful... SJ Starting to sound older and older every day....

Just wait till Josh starts writing for school. They start sounding reasonable, we'll introduce "adult" spelling a few words at at time, but they've now been through the "common" words three times (once per year) and half of what I see they still don't insist they use it. And looks like he'll get a bunch of weak (as in, they don't learn it even if we do try to teach it, so why bother) teachers next year. Sigh.

Here, start writing to you boss in this: http://easyscript.com/default.asp And if your company pays for courses related to the job, make him pay for the course!

Well maybe that was an encripted e-mail that contained classified data. One can never know.

Looks like he was trying to text you over the internet.