There are days when checking my email is a wonderful adventure.
Why? Because of the spam, the junk mail.
The clearing of the spam usually takes a few minutes, primarily because I am in the habit of reading the titles. Most titles are usually droll, proclaiming flash sales or limited time offers or beseeching me to take action or else I'll miss out.
FOMO not being one of my afflictions, I usually just hit delete, delete, delete to clear out all the detris so I can get to reading what is real, or at least from a recognizable, trusted source.
However, I also do not immediately delete some of the more humorous titles that are obvious poor attempts from people (or maybe AI?) that are not native English speakers to try to sell something.
There are a few in my email everyday, and they are absolute gems to read. The title of this post was one of them - it was from a company promoting a multi-vitamin that would help boost my memory. At least that's what I think the multi-vitamin was for - there were a few words missing in the the way of articles and verbs in the descriptive text, but the label on the container in the picture did have "Memories Boosting" on the label.
There are days when it's hard to believe that the spelling and grammar mistakes, as well as the poor sentence structure, is not deliberate, as they do a far better job of grabbing my attention than a title such as "Memory Boosting Multi-Vitamin Flash Sale" would.
If they are indeed deliberate, then I salute the anonymous clever copywriters who come up with them, as it's gotta take a little work to put together "Merry Cookies Used For Tired Gym Fat Burn People Fruity Package" and have it put into production.
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