Symbols Example

Let’s actually look at an example, a real life example so that we can put into practice actually use.

some of the things we’ve been talking about so far in this lesson about technical descriptions.

So we are going to look at a notice.

Pay attention to how we mention dates.

Also pay attention to how we mention symbols and when symbols are not read.

I’m gonna read through this then we’ll just quickly talk about why certain things are said and why certain things are not said.

All right.

So let’s read through this if you can do it in your head, Just before I do it, That’s great.

From March 14th to April 18th 2013, cafe KL dot com will be under maintenance.

We apologize for any inconvenience caused, those with questions can email Miss Alice Munro at KL underscore B dot t r i x dash 4 3 9 at Yahoo Dot com dot c n or call the store at 1 4 1 9 7 5 2 7 3 8 3.

Please visit one of our two locations, during the following store hours, Monday to Friday 8 am to 10 pm Saturday and Sunday 10 am to 6 pm.

OK now let’s look at this.

I wanna mention one thing, I didn’t say this because this is only here, because my computer is putting the rest of this email on the next line.

Actually if this were on one line that wouldn’t be there.

So I didn’t say dash there because it’s not a real it’s not a real dash.

It’s something my computer my computer did.

All right.

Now let’s start with the date.

So I said notice that this is not an M.

OK.

So sometimes dates are written just as the month instead of 0 3 just written as 3, but I added words I said from, OK from March 14th.

Well why didn’t I say from March 14th 2013.

The reason is because I’m saying it the second time, so I’m not gonna say this time, from March 14th to April 18th 2013.

I could say 2013 but I am adding TH to the 18 and TH to the 14, cafe KL dot com, I’m saying dot here because it is a URL, ok so URL.

will be under maintenance, That means it’s being fixed.

We apologize for any inconvenience caused.

Again this, this one here is just to basically say, hey we move this to the next line, So we definitely don’t need to read those.

OK, Those with questions can email is this, is an abbreviation.

Alice Munro at, now we need to say everything here every symbol because you have to actually put this in KL underscore B dot t r i x.

The reason I didn’t say Trix is because Trix can also be spelled as T R I C K S so I’m going to say T R I X dash 4 3 9 T R I X dash 4 3 9 at Yahoo Dot com dot Cm.

so we say everything here, this is going to be dash instead of Hyphen, because it’s in an email address.

OK now what about this one.

Why did I say at here.

Well, sometimes we use this symbol, Right.

This is at at, This is the at symbol I think you know that that’s very basic, but because a phone number is after this we can say at here, we don’t usually do that.

Usually a colon will not be set as at, It will just be a list.

For example like this one we don’t say anything here but here it’s a special case.

We have a phone number after it so we can say at.

If you don’t say it or call the store 1 4 1 9, OK.

Notice in the phone number, we don’t say parentheses, we don’t say hyphen or dash, because we don’t put that in the phone and we don’t say this during the following store hours.

notice that I added from Monday to Friday, I could say between Monday and Friday, from Monday to Friday.

OK here I’ll say from, from 8:00 am to 10 pm but I’m not really saying from because of the colon, I’m saying beginning here to this time from 8:00 am to 10:00 pm

I don’t say this, Don’t say that, ok.

then I say Saturday and Sunday, not from Saturday to Sunday, but just Saturday and Sunday

I could I suppose but usually because this is only two days I’ll use and to make it simpler.

Saturday and Sunday from 10:00 am to 6 pm or between 10:00 am and 6:00 pm

so hopefully that gives you a better feeling about how some of these symbols and how dates can actually be used in real life situations like a notice on a Website.

OK.

There are lots of other examples, but hopefully you have a better feeling about these and when you’re looking around on the Internet or you see this kind of thing notice and phone numbers, email addresses, let’s pay attention to how the symbols are used and try to keep in mind some of the things that we’ve talked about, with regards to how to use those, when to say them and when not to say them.

OK, Now let’s go on and talk about numbers.