B: So what did you do last year, when you couldn’t send your niece a birthday card? Did you send an e-card?
A: No, I found a local UK company online that will send cards for you.
B: That’s a good idea, but the point of sending a card is so that you can write a personal message inside.
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A: They will actually do that for you. You choose your card, tell them the message you want to include, and they’ll write it by hand for you.
B: Nice. And I bet their handwriting will be much better than that unreadable scrawl you call writing.
B: 去年不能寄生日卡給姪女時你怎麼辦？寄電子賀卡嗎？
A: 不是，我在線上找到一家當地英國公司，可以幫客人寄卡片。
B: 那真是個好點子，但寄卡片的重點，不就是為了在裡面寫上個人的訊息嗎？
A: 他們也可以幫你寫唷，你先挑選卡片，告訴他們附加的字句，然後他們就會幫你手寫上去了。
B: 不錯唷，而且我敢肯定他們手寫的筆跡，比你那個看不懂的鬼畫符要好太多啦。
(Paul Cooper, Taipei Times／台北時報張聖恩譯)
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