You might revert to me ... huh?

Owen

I get dozens of eMails a day at work, and there's a new buzzword - kinda like touch base, lets network, etc - it's called 'Revert'. Now as far as I know, the word revert means return to previous state, or in other words, turn back into what it was. I've checked Google, and I can't find any other definitions, but time and time again people are eMailing in with questions saying "You might revert to me on these". Anyone got any ideas if it's actually used in that context, or are all these people just making mistakes?

The almighty Google leads to sites like Bad English, and wordreference, and nearly every one of these sites says that it's actually a mistake, and that people just don't know what they're saying.

Reminds me of the Simpsons, where Edna Crabboble says "Embiggen isn't even a word", and Skinner says "Embiggen is a perfectly cromulent word"

6th

Sounds like more **** management speak to me. I suggest you reply and tell them to go fo0k themselves.

ShooterSF

Just reply "I can't as I am unsure of their previous state"

Should confuse the buzz word muppets a bit more.

Kintarō Hattori

Hmnn I can't say I've heard anyone here use that ned, perhaps it's just down there in cork. You know yer all a bit strange down there. :pac:

connundrum

Unless someone is going to revert to me with a cheque for several thousand euros, they can piss off.

biko

Use the word regress instead.

ShooterSF

Why not email them a definition of the word?

muckwarrior

Just reply with this http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/revert.html

Wreck

They all must be snowboarders

Revert - To switch from riding fakie to forward, or from forward to fakie, usually while the snowboard is still touching the ground.

I also get this in e-mails alot, especially when dealing with the US. What really bugs me is the new trend of replying to e-mails with the phrase 'well noted with thanks' - fcuking freaks me out tbh.

mikemac

"Please advise"

About every email I get has this:
Please advise why this was done
Please advise why you fecked off on lunch without doing it
Is advise a verb? Gonna check this, maybe it's ok
That's the buzzword along with "as per procedure"

Hey posters, why do some of you sign your posts? Always reminds me of work emails

Gillo

We convinced someone that he needed to rimsh00t an account last week, scary thing is he just accepted that that was what needed to be done.

Dyr

I hate "revert" I hate " advise" i hate "does that suit?" suit f***in who? finish the sentence!!:mad:

Ross_Mahon

Wreck wrote: »

They all must be snowboarders




I also get this in e-mails alot, especially when dealing with the US. What really bugs me is the new trend of replying to e-mails with the phrase 'well noted with thanks' - fcuking freaks me out tbh.

I knew it sounded familiar! Just from playing SSX all the time.

Slow Motion

Revert has been around for a long time! It's just *****ultant speech tbh, next time your asked to revert to someone about something, do so with your response telling them you were thinking outside the box to come up with this one, and while you know you are pushing the envalope, why don't we just run it up the flagpole and see if anyone salutes!

Alternatively tell them they sound like a wanker and to fcuk right off!

mikemac

Don't forget to touch base with your associates!

Owen

While the other ones are also management buzzwords, they are at least correct use of the english language. Revert makes people sound uneducated!

Black Swan

revert = get back (American idiom?)

KTRIC

ned78 wrote: »

While the other ones are also management buzzwords, they are at least correct use of the english language. Revert makes people sound uneducated!

Makes them sound like management then

Black Swan

KTRIC wrote: »

Makes them sound like management then

Indeed! As in AIG management with their $27 million dollar golden parachutes for CEOs that don't last a year and fail. And their survivors demanding a taxpayers multi-billion dollar bailout so that they can party at a posh So Cal resort for over $400,000.

AnonoBoy

I'm gonna go right ahead and action that ASAP and if you can just revert to me with the figures that'd be super.

[edit] I should be in management [/edit]

Mitch Connor

I get "Please do the needfull" a lot.

KTRIC

I could have been in management at this stage, 10 years in IT but I hate all the brown nosing and bullshit.

Can't imaging I'd ever stoop that low to be honest. It seems quite competent engineers go into management and either turn into assholes or get progressively stupid and ignorant.

Mitch Connor wrote: »

I get "Please do the needfull" a lot.

Let me guess, you have offices in India ?

Dinter

Yeah it's a pointless one alright. Personally when I see it in correspondance I take revert to mean, reply back on the particular subject with my thoughts / additions rather than making changes to the minutiae of it. I.e whether it makes good sense to do yadda yadda yadda, rather than whether I spelt minutiae right!

It's like if you're having a conversation and you go off to the jacks mid flow and when you came back you revert to the subject you were talking about before.

Just remember never say "revert back" as that just shows astounding levels of ignorance for which you should be crucified or at least insulted!

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Dinter

There's an old lad in my office who puts his business address in the top right of an email and my address (which is the same) below it just like he was writing a letter.

Bumbling old fool earns more money than I do! (Still can be damn sure he doesn't waste as much time on boards as I do.)

Slow Motion

KTRIC wrote: »

I could have been in management at this stage, /QUOTE]

"I coudda been a contender I tell ya, I coudda been somethin' special, now I'm just a bum........."

KTRIC

Slow Motion wrote: »

"I coudda been a contender I tell ya, I coudda been somethin' special, now I'm just a bum........."

Well put it this way. I earn more than my manager

And he knows it. :cool:

P.C.

Years ago, my boss (at the time) told me that i needed to 'go the extra mile'.

I told him that if I went 'the extra mile' I would not be at work, but a mile down the road.

He did not see the funny side.

Dyr

Look guys, I think we need to ringfence this discussion for now, I'm not getting a sense of what we're hoping to achieve here, yeah?

dunnomede?

micmclo wrote: »

Don't forget to touch base with your associates!

I'm being investigated on a case of sexual harrasment

Orlee

I get " You might revert to me by return"

Just don't get it! They might as well just write "WB"

Eoin

micmclo wrote: »

"Please advise"

About every email I get has this:
Please advise why this was done
Please advise why you fecked off on lunch without doing it
Is advise a verb? Gonna check this, maybe it's ok
That's the buzzword along with "as per procedure"

Yes, advise is a verb - advice is the noun.

I find it strange when people complain about buzz words, when in a good few cases, it would take more words to say the same thing "normally".

BroomBurner

Maybe they meant to say "refer" but someone forgot what the right word was.

I hate when people say "asap" instead of A.S.A.P.

Gran Hermano

Can you not take this topic off line?
Maybe you should speak to it with a more suitable audience.

Dinter

Bambi wrote: »

Look guys, I think we need to ringfence this discussion for now, I'm not getting a sense of what we're hoping to achieve here, yeah?

As per Bambi. I thought I'd run this up the flagpole. It's hard to drill down to our core competencies without some blue sky thinking. Going forward I'd like to facilitate a sit down to streamline and incentivise our paradigm shift depending on the granularity we discover with a SWOT analysis. Remember guys the answer is in the room and between us we can take it to the next level! Now revert back to me when you have a resource driven approach that encompasses a user interface.

(Let's think about it)

P.C.

Dinter wrote: »

As per Bambi. I thought I'd run this up the flagpole. It's hard to drill down to our core competencies without some blue sky thinking. Going forward I'd like to facilitate a sit down to streamline and incentivise our paradigm shift depending on the granularity we discover with a SWOT analysis. Remember guys the answer is in the room and between us we can take it to the next level! Now revert back to me when you have a resource driven approach that encompasses a user interface.

(Let's think about it)

I think we need to get task orrientated.

mikemac

Please reply by return email.

I understand replying by return post. You reply and post the letter before the daily deadline that post goes at.

return email?

Berty

Its because women are in business. If men were still the only breadwinners we would just talk normally. Women feel the need to justify their feeble brained existence in business.

Slow Motion

quirke_folder wrote: »

Its because women are in business. If men were still the only breadmakers we would just talk normally. Women feel the need to justify their feeble brained existence in business.

Did you mean breadwinners? Bit of a Freudian slip there methinks:D

Berty

Slow Motion wrote: »

Did you mean breadwinners? Bit of a Freudian slip there methinks:D

Drat, changed. I was thinking about the old series "Bread" and my mind started to wander. Ta

seamus

I imagine it's a typical exercise of people adding superfluous words (second time today I've gotten to use that ) when they don't fully understand what they're saying.

Much like "ATM Machine" or "PIN Number".

"Please revert" is a valid (if tenous) alternative to "Please reply", and in both cases, adding "to me" is a pointless exercise. Of course in the former case, it changes the meaning of the whole statement.

Owen

seamus wrote: »

"Please revert" is a valid (if tenous) alternative to "Please reply"

No it's not, please revert makes no sense in this context, it might if I were talking to a block of ice and I'd like it to revert to a puddle of water, but if someone asks me to please revert, it means in my mind, that they want me to transform into a fetus.

Dinter

You revert to the topic and not the particular email you received if that makes any sense.

seamus

ned78 wrote: »

No it's not, please revert makes no sense in this context, it might if I were talking to a block of ice and I'd like it to revert to a puddle of water, but if someone asks me to please revert, it means in my mind, that they want me to transform into a fetus.

That's the beauty of the flexibility of the language.

You need to pick your context correctly.

Look at this way:

Previous state: The ball was in my court. I sent an update asking for the other person to "revert" the issue. This means that they need to reply to me to ensure that the ball is once again in my court and this issue has "reverted" to its previous state.

This is why the "to me" changes the whole meaning of the statement (because it breaks context), whereas "please revert" does make sense.

It's bolloxology but no doubt somebody somewhere who managed to waste 6 years of their life doing a PhD on something called "Situation Theory", decided that "revert" was an appropriate word to be used in these circumstances.

Dinter

seamus wrote: »

It's bolloxology

That's a great word!! You run that up the flagpole and I'll salute it.

seamus

"Bolloxology" - the study of things that are complete and utter useless bollox.

John Mason

in my previous life, i worked in the legal system and that word was commanly used,

"Please revert to me, as a matter of urgency" etc.

5starpool

As a matter of urgency we need to progress this issue, and escalate if necessary to properly resource it.

javaboy

Still waiting on a couple.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgeLY7CL5IE

hullaballoo

pink fluffy bunny wrote: »

in my previous life, i worked in the legal system and that word was commanly used,

"Please revert to me, as a matter of urgency" etc.

The word 'revert' has been commonly used in legal correspondences for years. It's something that I'd imagine has been adopted in general communications in an attempt to sound professional. Misuse of the word i.e., by saying 'please revert to me' instead of just 'please revert' is what makes it unprofessional.

It's a bit like the difference between 'this comprises...' and 'this comprises of...'. One is correct English, the other is not. Whether or not 'revert' has become a buzz-word is irrelevant once it makes sense - and as seamus points out, it does.

marcsignal

op just reply to the mail saying


"off fuck"

Please revert.........