The following email was inadvertently sent to me recently. The personal details of the sender have been removed for obvious reasons.

Is this English?

Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 06:36:27 +0100

HAPPY DASARA
Hello
  Suresh how are you, to day isfestival you know how you celabrate the
festival
Just now i receivd your message i feel very very happy because you
rememberd me. what is your job, are you happy with the sallery
 are you are working on Oracle or Mainfrmes .
 what ever it may be whether it is oracle or vb or some other language
you  learn  subject that will help you in the fuature
here our most of the friends trying come to US .almost all paid to
consultance
every body expecting papers.
our close friend and batch mate kunti(******** *****) he got
papers.until now he did not attend to the ambusy. presently he is
working as a lab faculty in AS/40O.but i never met him. how is your
parents i did not make any call to your house why meens you know i am
very lazy.
how much sallery you are earning are you got any increments .at present
my salery is 14000 but it is very very less compared with your salery
what about the opertunites in US.which lanugage is in boom

Ok suresh i am giving my mail addres and phone numbers here
  try to send it to both mail addresses
                                user@mailexcite.com
                                user@hotmail.com
                            phno:nnnnnnn or nn or nn
                                     extention:nnnn

i am waiting for your next mail
 WISH YOU ALL THE BEST
                                                                YOURS LOVINGLY