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Accompanying the general tendency of E-mailers to be informal is the tendency of readers to be more forgiving than readers of pr

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问题      Accompanying the general tendency of E-mailers to be informal is the tendency of readers to be more forgiving than readers of printed material. 【61】 Since E-mail is a simple substitute for a routine telephone call, its quick brief messages last remarkably short -- there is no point in styling them, or in being concerned with the niceties of their grammar. Where a misspelling in a printed letter leaves many readers concluding that the writer is a crude person or a fool, the same misspelling in an E-mail message hardly makes a difference to the readers. They assume that the writer must be too busy working or having fun online to bother with spellcheckers and dictionaries.
   【62】 These different expectations can liberate us from many of the more dull conventions that can make print communications slow, stuffy, and even tedious. But they can also lead us to unintentional rudeness, manner lightness that seems disrespectful, or the appearance of indifference to our readers.
   It is too early to tell whether the informality of E-mail will begin to influence the way we write on paper. 【63】 Certainly, bad spellers will hope the more forgiving attitude of E-mail ’readers might spill over to print readers and that E-mail is really a medium that can be used for a whole range of situations. Not a brand of English that is noteworthy chiefly for a small set of his stylistic conventions. It is easy to get entranced by the novelty and the speed of electronic communication and to think of it more as a playground than as a city full of varied neighborhoods. As a writer you must always keep your wits about you and be street smart.
   【64】 It is important to remember the virtues that traditional written communication offers opportunities to shape pieces of writing into something worth saving and chances to move a reader by careful arrangement of words for their accumulative effect. A formal occasion in life, an important business communication, a job application, or a serious personal letter has its own special writing requirements, whether you send it as a hard copy in the mail or as a series of high-pitched electronic sounds over a cable. 【65】 The informal chatter we like so much is not really suitable for every message we might send by E-mail; just as everything has its limits, E-mail is no exception.
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答案由于电子邮件只不过是日常电话的替代品，那么它的简单快捷的信息持续的时间极其短暂——因此没有必要注意文稿的文体以及关注它的语法是否正确。
解析 本句为含有since引导的原因状语从句的主从复合句。此句的主体句式是：Since E-mail is a simple substitute．．．its quick brief messages last．．．short...。其中since引导原因状语从句。此外，在此句substitute是名词“代用品，替代品”，常与for连用；point“用处；用途”，there is no point in+V.+ing“做…没有意义/用处”；style在此为动词，“将…设计、塑造或制作成某种风格”；nicety意为“细微的区别；微小的细节”多为复数。
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