BATHOS

You do a bathos in an email.
You include a crude joke at the end of a very professional email. Why is it a bathos?


A bathos is a switching from talking or writing in a high class way… to a low class way.

It ruins the image you were presenting.

http://www.englishionary.com/B/Bathos.htm

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2 Responses to “BATHOS”


  1. 1 frances March 10, 2011 at 11:40 am

    may i know what kind of folks is that?


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