Eric Walker <
em...@owlcroft.com> writes:
> On Sun, 18 Dec 2011 16:33:52 -0800, Wén Shào wrote:
>
>> Our lecture website says: Contact hours for student: after the lecture
>> or per email. What does "per email" mean here? Shouldn't it be "via
>> email" or "by email"?
>
> Yes, it should be "by". Moreover, a comma is needed after "lecture",
> because the contact hours are not after per/via/by email, which is how it
> reads without the comma.
That's how I read it, and it made sense to me. Contact hours are
after the lecture or according to what is said via e-mail. In other
words, if you want to talk other than after the lecture, send us
e-mail and we'll tell you when we can meet.
> Even among native speakers of English, there is a silly but strong
> temptation to resort to foreign or technical terms when some plain Anglo-
> Saxon word suffices.
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