You might revert to me ... huh?

Eoin · 24-11-2008 02:31PM

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 · 24-11-2008 02:34PM

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 · 24-11-2008 02:34PM

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

Dinter · 24-11-2008 02:44PM

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. · 24-11-2008 02:47PM

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 · 24-11-2008 03:00PM

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 · 24-11-2008 03:06PM

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 · 24-11-2008 03:15PM

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 · 24-11-2008 03:19PM

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 · 24-11-2008 03:20PM

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 · 24-11-2008 03:24PM

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 · 24-11-2008 03:26PM

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

seamus · 24-11-2008 03:29PM

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 · 24-11-2008 03:31PM

seamus wrote: »

It's bolloxology

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

seamus · 24-11-2008 03:34PM

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

John Mason · 24-11-2008 03:49PM

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 · 24-11-2008 04:12PM

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

javaboy · 24-11-2008 04:38PM

Still waiting on a couple.

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

hullaballoo · 24-11-2008 05:08PM

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 · 24-11-2008 05:47PM

op just reply to the mail saying

"off fuck"

Please revert.........

You might revert to me ... huh?

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